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Due to an incident at Tower Bridge ...

Poster
1978 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

''Due to an incident at Tower Bridge please stare into space for 20 minutes' … Travel By Penguin'. Offset lithograph poster, printed in black on a white ground, promoting Penguin Books. The design shows a train platform full of commuters staring straight ahead.


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Object type
TitleDue to an incident at Tower Bridge ...
Materials and techniques
Offset lithograph, printed in black on a white ground
Brief description
''Due to an incident at Tower Bridge please stare into space for 20 minutes' … Travel By Penguin'. Offset lithograph poster designed by Bryan McAllister and issued by Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, London, 1978.
Physical description
''Due to an incident at Tower Bridge please stare into space for 20 minutes' … Travel By Penguin'. Offset lithograph poster, printed in black on a white ground, promoting Penguin Books. The design shows a train platform full of commuters staring straight ahead.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.1cm
  • Width: 50.7cm
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
Marks and inscriptions
Signed.
Subjects depicted
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
Other number
25/F9 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Accession number
E.1346-1979

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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