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Papers, photographs and correspondence of John Banting

1906–72

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Available online are a selection of manuscripts, drawings and book covers by John Banting; and a photograph album belonging to Banting with photographs of Alix Strachey, Edward Sackville-West, Angus Davidson and Rupert Doone.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.

Collection Owner
John Banting 1902–1971
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Purchased from the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, August 1977.
Reference
TGA 779

137 objects in this collection

  • Papers, photographs and correspondence of John Banting

    137 Objects

    • Writings by John Banting

      8 Objects

    • Original art work, book jackets and source material

      41 Objects

    • Photographs

      88 Objects

Title
Papers, photographs and correspondence of John Banting
Date
1906–72
Description
Available online are a selection of manuscripts, drawings and book covers by John Banting; and a photograph album belonging to Banting with photographs of Alix Strachey, Edward Sackville-West, Angus Davidson and Rupert Doone.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.
Reference
TGA 779

Showing 21–40 of 137 objects

Design for book jacket of ‘Brian Howard, Memoirs’ edited by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster

John Banting
date not known

Design for book jacket of ‘Brian Howard, Memoirs’ edited by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster

John Banting
date not known

Printed book jacket for ‘The Memorial’ by Christopher Isherwood, designed by John Banting

John Banting
date not known

Printed book jacket for ‘The Case is Altered’ by William Plomer, designed by John Banting

John Banting
date not known

Printed book jacket for ‘The Twilight Age’ by A. Prophett, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1933

Printed book jacket for ‘The Magnetic Mountain’ by C. Day Lewis, Hogarth Living Poets, second series No 2, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1935

Printed book jacket for ‘The Noise of History’ by John Lehmann, Hogarth Living Poets, second series No 2, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1934

Printed book jacket for ‘Illyria, Lady’ by Constance Butler, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1934

Printed book jacket for ‘Illyria, Lady’ by Constance Butler, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1934

Printed book jacket for ‘Joan of Arc’ by V. Sackville-West, world-makers and Shakers, A series of short biographies, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1937

Printed book jacket for ‘Socrates’ by Naomi Mitchison and R. H. S. Crossman, World-makers and Shakers Series, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1937

Printed book jacket for ‘Grammar of Love’ by Ivan Bunin, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1935

Printed book jacket for ‘Mr Norris Changes Trains’ by Christopher Isherwood, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1935

Printed book jacket for ‘The Marchesa and Other Stories’ by K. Swinstead-Smith, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1936

Printed book jacket for ‘Windless Sky’ by Fritz Falkner, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1936

Printed book jacket for ‘Party going’ by Henry Green, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1939

Printed book jacket for ‘Children my Children’ by Peter de Polnay, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1939

Printed book jacket for ‘There’s a German just behind me’ by Clare Hollingworth, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1942

Printed book jacket for ‘The Wound & the Bow’ by Edmund Wilson, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1942

Printed book jacket for ‘Bitten by the Tarantula’ by J. Maclaren-Ross, designed by John Banting

John Banting
1945
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