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Lovers To Lovers' Lanes By Motor Bus

Poster
1921 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. 'Lovers To Lovers' Lanes By Motor Bus'. The design shows a man and a woman walking in the moonlight, with shadows and silhouettes of trees and bushes about them. 'Lovers To Lovers’ Lanes By Motor Bus' is lettered in pale-blue at the bottom of the image.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleLovers To Lovers' Lanes By Motor Bus
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
'Lovers To Lovers' Lanes By Motor Bus'. Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. Designed by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson and issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., 1921.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. 'Lovers To Lovers' Lanes By Motor Bus'. The design shows a man and a woman walking in the moonlight, with shadows and silhouettes of trees and bushes about them. 'Lovers To Lovers’ Lanes By Motor Bus' is lettered in pale-blue at the bottom of the image.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101cm
  • Width: 62.9cm
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
  • 'C.R.W. Nevinson' (Signed.)
  • 'LOVERS / TO LOVERS' LANES / BY MOTOR-BUS' (Lettered in pale-blue at the bottom of the image.)
Credit line
Presented by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.
Subjects depicted
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
Other number
28/C3 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Accession number
E.1338-1921

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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