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Go Great Western To Cornwall

Poster
1932 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Great Western Railway (issuer)
William Brown & Co Ltd (printer)
Kauffer, Edward McKnight (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Colour lithograph poster advertising the Great Western Railway. The design is a scene of a path between rocky walls towards a village by the sea.

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Object details

Categories
Advertising
Transport
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleGo Great Western To Cornwall (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Go Great Western To Cornwall'. Colour lithograph poster designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Issued by the Great Western Railway, Great Britain, 1932.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising the Great Western Railway. The design is a scene of a path between rocky walls towards a village by the sea.
Dimensions
  • Height: 100.7cm
  • Width: 61.5cm
From departmental notes.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'E. McKnight Kauffer 32' (Signed and dated.)
  • '15' (Lettered with the name of the printers and numbered.)
Subjects depicted
Travel
Transport
Sunset
Coastline
Sea
Place depicted
Cornwall
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
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
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.589-1981

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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