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Sunshine is Life

Poster
1913 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Hardy, Dudley (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

'Sunshine is life'. Colour lithograph poster advertising travel to the Riviera via the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway. Signed.


Object details

Categories
Advertising
Prints
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleSunshine is Life
Materials and techniques
colour lithography
Printing Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Sunshine is life'. Colour lithograph poster advertising travel to the Riviera via the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway. Design by Dudley Hardy. Great Britain. 1913.
Physical description
'Sunshine is life'. Colour lithograph poster advertising travel to the Riviera via the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 99.1cm
  • Width: 60.2cm
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
Marks and inscriptions
Signed.
Credit line
Given by Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son.
Subject depicted
Travel
Bibliographic references
  • 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
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1915, London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1916.
Other number
17/B12 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2-1915

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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