You've Only Got To Choose Your Bus To Buss Me

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Artist/Maker	Gill, (Leslie) Macdonald (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (made)

Original ink drawing design for a poster map of the North Downs, advertising the London General Omnibus Company ('You’ve Only Got To Choose Your Bus To Buss Me').

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Categories	Designs Drawings Posters Maps
Object type	Poster Design
Title	You've Only Got To Choose Your Bus To Buss Me
Materials and techniques	Ink drawing Ink Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description	Original ink drawing design for a poster map of the North Downs, advertising the London General Omnibus Company ('You’ve Only Got To Choose Your Bus To Buss Me'). By Macdonald Gill. Great Britain. c.1920.
Physical description	Original ink drawing design for a poster map of the North Downs, advertising the London General Omnibus Company ('You’ve Only Got To Choose Your Bus To Buss Me').
Dimensions	Height: 98.4cm Width: 121.6cm Dimensions 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 type	Design
Credit line	Given by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL)
Object history	See the final published poster that was issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., E.1131-1920.
Subject depicted	Map
Place depicted	The Downs
Associated objects	E.1131-1920 (Version) E.1129-1920 (Version) E.1130-1920 (Version)
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.510-1921

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O705554/youve-only-got-to-choose-poster-design-gill-leslie-macdonald/

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