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Winter Sales Are Best Reached By Underground

Poster
1924 (designed), 1924 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issued by)
Kauffer, Edward McKnight (artist)
Place of origin
Greater London (issued)

Colour lithograph poster promoting use of the London Underground system. The design shows a highly stylised image of two women in winter coats with umbrellas, braving the weather to go shopping. The image in dark, muted colours, with text below. Signed 'E. McKnight Kauffer, '24'.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Shopping
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleWinter Sales Are Best Reached By Underground (trade title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Winter Sales Are Best Reached By Underground'. Colour lithograph poster designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., 1924.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster promoting use of the London Underground system. The design shows a highly stylised image of two women in winter coats with umbrellas, braving the weather to go shopping. The image in dark, muted colours, with text below. Signed 'E. McKnight Kauffer, '24'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.92cm
  • Width: 63.82cm
Marks and inscriptions
'E. McKnight Kauffer, '24' (Signed and dated.)
Credit line
Presented by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.
Subjects depicted
Travel
Transport
Associated object
CIRC.409-1971 (Duplicate)
Bibliographic references
  • Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1926, London: Board of Education, 1927.
Other number
21/F2 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.58-1926

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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