Travel Underground between 10 and 4
Poster
1930 (published)
1930 (published)
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Poster depicting a street scene with shoppers (mainly women and children), a window display with fabrics, a bus and the old entrance to Knightsbridge tube station
Object details
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| Title | Travel Underground between 10 and 4 (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | 'Travel Underground between 10 and 4'. Poster depicting a street scene with shoppers. Colour lithograph designed by Herbert Ashwin Budd and issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., 1930. |
| Physical description | Poster depicting a street scene with shoppers (mainly women and children), a window display with fabrics, a bus and the old entrance to Knightsbridge tube station |
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| Marks and inscriptions | '"And there is no place where economy / can be so well practised as in London: / more can be had here for the money / even by ladies, than anywhere else" / "Boswell's Life of Johnson" / Travel UNDERGROUND between 10 & 4' (Bottom.)
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| Historical context | Advertising shopping facilities and sales was one of the methods the London Underground Railways used to encourage people to travel during off-peak times. This design by Herbert Budd (a painter of portraits and domestic life) enticingly depicts a bustling shopping scene, mainly peopled by women and children, and set outside the old entrance to Knightsbridge Underground Station (near Harrods). A toy vendor in the foreground, and a newspaper seller on the right add local colour. In the windows of the shopping arcade are displayed fabrics, some of which appear to be in the popular Art Deco style. [Margaret Timmers, 'British Design at Home', p.115] |
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| Other number | 7/F3 - V&A microfiche |
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| Accession number | E.1388-1963 |
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| Record created | February 14, 2000 |
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