Law, Roger, b 1941 (Artist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: b 1941
Gender
- male
Occupations
Places
- Littleport, Cambridgeshire (Place of Birth)
Found in 387 Collections and/or Records:
File
'Satirical London: 300 Years of Irreverent Images', 2006
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/5/11/4
Scope and Contents
A file with two items relating to the exhibition, 'Satirical London: 300 Years of Irreverent Images,' which was produced by and held at the Museum of London, between 1 April and 3 September 2006. The following are present: an invitation card to attend a private viewing of the exhibition on 28 March; and a printout of an email received by Roger Law from the Registrar for the museum, Nickos Gogolos, who wishes to finalise the return of items that Law has lent to the museum for the...
Dates:
2006
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Scott Brooker Facsimile Drawings, 2020 - 2021
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/5/14/9
Scope and Contents
A file containing three computer printouts that feature copies of four artworks produced by former Spitting Image artist and puppeteer, Scott Brooker. The first printout has two portrait drawings, one of a white cat puppet and the other of a wolverine puppet, both of which featured in Spitting Image. The second printout features a portrait drawing of former Spitting Image puppeteer, Richard Coombs. In this...
Dates:
2020 - 2021
Conditions Governing Access:
Part closed. A email printout is closed until 2050, as it contains a current or presumed current personal email address.
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Second Sale Correspondence File, 2001, 2013
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/5/7/2/2/1
Scope and Contents
A file containing correspondence largely relating to preparations for the second sale of Spitting Image puppets and other items, which was held at Sotheby's in November 2001. The vast majority of this correspondence is in the form of faxes, and is between Roger Law and Deirdre Amsden, based in Australia at that time, with representatives at Sotheby's, the director of Spitting Image Productions Limited, Richard Bennett; and Law's brother, Martin. Other topics...
Dates:
2001; 2013
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Senator Barry Goldwater Dashboard Doll, 1964
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/3/13/1
Scope and Contents
A United States Senator Barry Morris Goldwater car dashboard doll, manufactured by Remco Industries Inc. and originally sold during the 1964 presidential campaign. The plastic doll is sealed in its original packaging.
This item was purchased by Roger Law, and was used as a source of inspiration for merchandise produced by Spitting Image Productions Limited, including the 'Pet Hates' dog chew toys.
Dates:
1964
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Set of Eggcups, 1982 - 1988
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/4/1/5/3
Scope and Contents
A set of nine ceramic eggcups, modelled by Luck & Flaw, which bear caricature faces of the following British politicians and members of the royal family: Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson, two copies of a baby Prince William, and a baby Princess Beatrice. All eggcups have a white glossy finish.
This set is incomplete, missing those for Prince Charles [afterwards King Charles III] and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Dates:
1982 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
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Silver Award Statue, 1967
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/6/1
Scope and Contents
An award statue 'for the best editiorial feature in a consumer magazine' category, presented to Roger Law by the Designers and Art Directors Association (D&AD). This particular award relates to two plasticine model illustrations created by Law, which were used in the October 1966 issue of Nova, as part of an article about catholicism.
The statue is made of wood, and it is in the shape of a large pencil with a yellow body.
Dates:
1967
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Silver Award Statue, 1985
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/3/11/6/2
Scope and Contents
A Design and Art Direction Silver Award statue 'for the most outstanding design for a comedy programme.' The statue is in the shape of a yellow wooden pencil. This award was presented to Roger Law, and was accompanied by a certificate [see entry MS Add.10275/3/11/6/1].
Dates:
1985
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Silver, Levene & Company Papers, 1987 - 1989
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/5/2
Scope and Contents
A file containing two sets of material relating to the chartered accountancy firm, Silver, Levene & Company, and their services to Luck & Flaw. There are three financial statements for the years ending the 5 April 1985, 1986 and 1989. There is also a bundle of correspondence and other papers, which cover the following topics: the payment of interest on overdue taxation for the years 1983/1984 and 1984/1985, the payment of other taxation, and invoices for the preparation of the...
Dates:
1987 - 1989
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The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Simple Pleasures: Lin Jin with Roger Law', 2024
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/5/11/14
Scope and Contents
A file holding two items relating to a joint exhibition by Lin Jin and Roger Law at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which was held between 4 May and 17 November 2024. The first item is a catalogue for the exhibition, and features an inscription from Roger Law on the title page, addressed to the University Librarian and Director of Library Services at Cambridge University Libraries, Jessica Gardner. The second item is a small piece of card that bears an original piece of artwork by Law,...
Dates:
2024
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Sub-Sub-Series
Sir Roy Welensky - The Whole Hog, c 1962
Sub-Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/1/2/1
Scope and Contents
Two versions of 'The Whole Hog' mural, produced by Roger Law, both of which feature woodcut portrait prints of the former Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Sir Roland 'Roy' Welensky. Across the murals, Welensky morphs from a man into a warthog. These prints were originally published in the 10 April 1962 issue of the magazine, Queen (RL/Pre-/817 and 818). It is unknown which one of the two murals was actually displayed at The Establishment...
Dates:
c 1962
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Sladmore Contemporary Gallery Exhibitions, 2014 - 2017
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/5/11/11
Scope and Contents
A file containing material relating to two Roger Law exhibitions that were hosted at the Sladmore Contemporary Gallery. The following are present: a catalogue for an exhibition held between 30 October and 14 November 2014, which showcased Law's ceramics that he produced in Jingdezhen; and a catalogue and invitation card for a private viewing, which relate to an exhibition held between 6 and 24 December 2017, which featured both ceramics and drawings.
Dates:
2014 - 2017
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Small and Medium Transparencies, c early 1960s-c mid 1970s
Sub-Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/3/2/1
Scope and Contents
Three boxes containing 35mm and 62mm colour photographic transparencies and slides, along with a small amount of negatives and contact prints. The majority of these items feature images of Roger Law's plasticine model illustrations, used in various publications, from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. However, there are also images relating to Law's and Peter Cook's Almost the End column in The Observer Weekend Review, c 1962; a...
Dates:
c early 1960s-c mid 1970s
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Sotheby's First Sale Financial Documents File, 2000 - 2001
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/5/7/2/1/3
Scope and Contents
A file containing Sotheby's sale documentation received by the director of Spitting Image Productions Limited, Richard Bennett, and Roger Law, prior to and following the first sale of Spitting Image puppets, conducted on the internet by Sotheby's and Amazon.com, between 7 and 20 July 2000. The following documents are present: internet receipt and contract; confirmation of sale and reserve; sale results; printouts of spreadsheets detailing the lots of the auction...
Dates:
2000 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access:
Part closed. One file is closed until September 2041, under the Archive’s confidentiality guidelines for sensitive data (in compliance with the Data Protection Act (2018)).
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Sotheby's Second Sale Financial Documents File, 2001 - 2002
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/5/7/2/2/2
Scope and Contents
A file containing Sotheby's sale documentation received by the director of Spitting Image Productions Limited, Richard Bennett, and Roger Law, prior to and following the second sale of Spitting Image puppets at the auction house, on 29 November 2001. The following documents are present: property receipt and contract; sale agreement; confirmation of sale and reserves; sale results; sale statements; and client monthly statements of account.There is also a...
Dates:
2001 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access:
Part closed. One file is closed until September 2041, under the Archive’s confidentiality guidelines for sensitive data (in compliance with the Data Protection Act (2018)).
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Spitting Image, 1982, 1986
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/3/7/1/1/1
Scope and Contents
A file containing two promotion-related items concerning the British satirical puppet television show, Spitting Image. The first is an original ring-bound proposal document for the series (SI/1952), dated 1982. Bearing one of the programme's initial titles, Spit'n'Image, the proposal provides an introduction on the proposed production and its premise, along with information on its format and a demo video currently in production, and...
Dates:
1982; 1986
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Spitting Image 100th Episode, 1993-c early 2000s
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/3/4/21
Scope and Contents
A file holding a publicity photograph for Spitting Image's 100th episode, which aired in June 1993 (SI/977 (b)). The photograph features a group image of the following puppets: Queen Elizabeth II, Mick Jagger, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Neil Kinnock, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Prince Charles [later King Charles III], and Michael Jackson. There are also a couple of computer printouts, which contain the image of another publicity shot taken at the same...
Dates:
1993-c early 2000s
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Spitting Image and Post-Spitting Image Record Forms, c 2010s-2020
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/7/5/3
Scope and Contents
A box holding a bundle of catalogue record forms, which document artwork, photographic images, publications and other material primarily found within what is now the Spitting Image Productions Limited sub-fonds of the Roger Law Archive, but also within the Spittoon Limited and Roger Law (Post-Spitting Image Years) sections.These record forms contain the following: the original reference number for an item, which has the prefix 'SI/;' the title of an object, piece of artwork or...
Dates:
c 2010s-2020
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Spitting Image Containers Summary File, 1991-c 2010s
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/7/1/3
Scope and Contents
A file containing computer-processed lists for the contents of the original 21 portfolios, 22 boxes and five packages that were deposited at Cambridge University Library, which held material relating to Spitting Image Productions Limited, along with items connected to Spittoon Limited, and Roger Law's activities following the cancellation of Spitting Image and the winding down of SIPL's operations at the end of the 1990s. There are several other lists, including: a...
Dates:
1991-c 2010s
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Spitting Image Franchise Documentary, 2004
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/5/8/2
Scope and Contents
A file containing two letters between Roger Law and Adam Kemp, head of commissioning for independents and nations at the British Broadcasting Corporation. Law puts the case forward to Kemp to produce a documentary on the Spitting Image franchises, which were produced in other countries, such as Russia, Japan and Greece. Kemp is informed that the footage and interviews already exist, stored on Hi8 tapes and other formats [collected by Spitting Image Productions...
Dates:
2004
Conditions Governing Access:
Restricted. Closed until September 2041, under the Archive’s confidentiality guidelines for sensitive data (in compliance with the Data Protection Act (2018)).
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'Spitting Image: From Start to Finish', 2014
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/5/11/10
Scope and Contents
A file containing material relating to the Spitting Image 30th anniversary exhibition, 'Spitting Image: From Start to Finish,' which was produced and hosted by The Cartoon Museum, between 26 February and 8 June 2014. Items include: two copies of a computer printout with a press release; three copies of a printout containing Roger Law's promotional schedule in aid of the exhibition, which included television and radio appearances, and a press conference; two...
Dates:
2014
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Sub-Series
Spitting Image Personnel and Premises, c 1980-c 1994
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/3/4/1
Scope and Contents
Sets of photographs, transparencies, contact prints and negatives that focus on either Spitting Image personnel or on Spitting Image Productions Limited premises, such as the workshops at Limehouse Studios (early 1980s to 1989), Plumbers Row (1989 to early 1994), and Cairo Studios (summer of 1994 to the late 1990s/early 2000s).The following are present, and their accompanying number corresponds to their file or item reference number within this...
Dates:
c 1980-c 1994
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Stern, 1976 - 1981
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/2/3/7
Scope and Contents
Four issues of the German weekly current affairs magazine, Stern, which feature photographic images of Luck & Flaw plasticine model illustrations.The following editions are present:1. 28 October 1976 (No. 45) - the front cover has an illustration of [future] American President, Jimmy Carter, dressed as a farmer; photographic image by Bob Cramp (L+F/30).2. 19 July 1979 (No. 30) - pages 90 and 91 hold an illustration, which was...
Dates:
Publication: 1976 - 1981
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The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Roger Law Archive
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Luck & Flaw
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Published Material
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Magazines
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Storyboard and Set Drawings, 1968
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/5/2
Scope and Contents
Storyboard, design and set drawings for the puppet film, The Milkman: A Satire on Capitalism. The storyboard and design drawings are in pencil and coloured crayon, and the set design drawings are in pencil, accompanied by annotations in pen (RL/Pre-/781 (a)-(h)).
Dates:
1968
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Storyteller, 1997
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/3/6/1/25
Scope and Contents
A file composed of two faxes from Erik Shields at EVA Entertainment to Roger Law, relating to a prospective children's television series that would incorporate Spitting Image Workshop puppets and animated segments. The show is referred to as Storyteller. One of the faxes contains a write-up of a 'summit' held at Dartington [Hall; Law was giving lessons at the pottery school at the time] between Law, cartoonist, Andy Riley; and representatives of EVA Entertainment....
Dates:
1997
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Item
Striptease, c 1962
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/1/2/2
Scope and Contents
A large cartoon strip mural, created by Roger Law for display at Peter Cook's The Establishment nightclub. The mural, drawn in felt-tip pen and coloured crayon, depicts a man, initially clothed in full military regalia, strip down until he is completely nude, with the exception of a medal covering his genitalia (RL/Pre-/994).
Dates:
c 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
Part restricted. Very fragile material - access may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please seek guidance.