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Quickly away, thanks to Pneumatic Doors

Poster
1937 (printed), 1937 (issued)
Artist/Maker
London Transport Board (issued by)
Waterlow & Sons (printers)
Moholy-Nagy, László (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (printed)
London (issued)

Colour lithograph poster promoting the introduction of pneumatic doors on the London Underground. The design features a central illustration demonstrating how the mechanism works.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleQuickly away, thanks to Pneumatic Doors (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Quickly away, thanks to Pneumatic Doors'. Colour lithograph poster promoting the introduction of pneumatic doors on the London Underground. Designed by László Moholy-Nagy and issued by the London Passenger Transport Board, England, 1937.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster promoting the introduction of pneumatic doors on the London Underground. The design features a central illustration demonstrating how the mechanism works.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.3cm
  • Width: 63.3cm
Measurements taken from: 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
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'moholy nagy' (Signed, bottom-left corner of sheet.)
  • 'Waterlow & Son. London & Dunstable' (Name of printers, bottom-right corner of sheet.)
  • 37-87-1500 (Dated and numbered)
  • 'QUICKLY AWAY, THANKS TO / PNEUMATIC / DOORS' (Lettered across the top-quarter of the sheet, in green and red, as part of the design.)
Production
Attribution note: Poster issued by London Transport
Subjects depicted
Transport
Innovation
Trains (Vehicle Groupings)
Associated object
E.591-1981
Bibliographic references
  • Borchardt-Hume,Achim ed. Albers and Moholy-Nagy: from the Bauhaus to the New World London : Tate, 2006. ISBN 1854376381. 190 p. : ill. (chiefly col.).
  • 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
Other number
27/C5 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.590-1981

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Record createdJune 13, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O125117/quickly-away-thanks-to-pneumatic-poster-moholy-nagy-lászló/
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