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Go Great Western to Cornwall

Poster
1932 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Great Western Railway (issuer)
Kauffer, Edward McKnight (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Colour lithograph poster advertising the Great Western Railway. The design is a black and orange/yellow image showing a coastline at sunset, with rays of light reflecting on ripples in the water by the rocks edge.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleGo Great Western to Cornwall (trade title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
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 black and orange/yellow image showing a coastline at sunset, with rays of light reflecting on ripples in the water by the rocks edge.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.6cm
  • Width: 63.5cm
From departmental notes.
Credit line
Given by the Underground Electric Railways Co.
Subjects depicted
Travel
Transport
Sunset
Coastline
Sea
Place depicted
Cornwall
Associated objects
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 & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1933, London: Printed under the Authority of the Board of Education 1934
Other number
22/B3 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.545-1933

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O742746/go-great-western-to-cornwall-poster-kauffer-edward-mcknight/
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