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'By the rushy-fringed bank, Where grows the willow and the osier dank' (Milton.)

Poster
1932 (issued), 1932 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issued by)
Kauffer, Edward McKnight (artist)
Milton, John (poet)
Place of origin
Greater London (issued)

Colour lithograph poster featuring a quote from John Milton's Comus, advertising the London Underground Railways. Lettered 'E McKnight Kauffer '32'.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
Title'By the rushy-fringed bank, Where grows the willow and the osier dank' (Milton.) (trade title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Paper
Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'By the rushy-fringed bank, Where grows the willow and the osier dank'. Colour lithograph poster featuring a quote from John Milton's 'Comus'. Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., 1932.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster featuring a quote from John Milton's Comus, advertising the London Underground Railways. Lettered 'E McKnight Kauffer '32'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.6cm
  • Width: 63.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
'E McKnight Kauffer '32' (Signed and dated.)
Credit line
Given by the Underground Electric Railways Co.
Subject depicted
Quotations (Texts)
Literary referenceMilton, John. <u>Comus</u>. ca.1637. Known colloquially as 'Comus', the mask's full title is 'A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle 1634: on Michelmas night, before the right honorable John, Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Majesty's most honorable privy council'.
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 & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933
Other number
22/A10 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3340-1932

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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