Film poster for Seven: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Movie poster with collage of stills from the movie arranged in the number 7 in the center of the poster. The stills are arranged on a textured background of shades of brown. At the top above the number in gothic-like text is the movie tag line [LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN TRY TO SURVIVE.]. Below the number are red hash marks numbering seven. Below the hash marks is a line of text, also in a gothic-style font [GLUTTONY GREED SLOTH ENVY WRATH PRIDE LUST], Below that line of font is the billing block in plain, white text.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1995
• Produced by: New Line Film Productions, Inc., 1967 - 2008
• Subject of: Morgan Freeman, American, born 1937
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 41 × 26 15/16 in. (104.1 × 68.4 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Object number: 2014.35.17
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Personal Collection of Bill Ivory Larson
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

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