Original design, in ink and water-colour on paper by Dorothy Mary Burroughes for a poster entitled 'Book to Regent’s Park or Camden Town for the Zoo', that was issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd. Great Britain. 1920.

'Book to Regent’s Park or Camden Town for the Zoo'. Original design for a colour lithograph poster issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd. Ink and water-colour on paper. Signed.

Commercial Art stated of this poster in 1920 that ‘Miss Burroughes is a magician, who by the simple, though difficult device, of elimination, and my means of her unerring colour-sense, can transform an ugly little brute and a sad little captive into an aristocrat of the Simian tribe’. Well known for her zoo posters and skill in illustrating animals for children's books later in her career, she made various references to animal rights and welfare. In an interview with Drawing & Design of 1923 she said 'it was heart breaking to look into the eyes of the caged lions, imprisoned in their enclosures. [Their] eyes were too full of dreams and pain and captivity to bear looking at, and to attempt to draw them seemed sacrilege’.

CIRC.844-1926