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Redcar

Poster
1928 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Rectangular landscape layout colour lithograph poster. Showing a group of twenty-somethings sat on a beach; a woman dressed in a yellow cardigan and white trousers is stretched out on the sand and leaning against her female friend, who is dressed in a blue dress and hat. Opposite them is a man dressed in white casual clothes. A couple are standing together opposite the group and next to them a woman in a white hat is waving to someone who is not in view; with a pier and sea in the background. The image is inscribed: REDCAR ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET FREE FROM TOWN CLERK REDCAR OR ANY L.N.E.R INQUIRY OFFICE.. Signed.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleRedcar (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithography
Brief description
Poster designed by Austin Cooper, issued by the London and North Eastern Railway, 'Redcar', colour lithograph, Great Britain, 1928
Physical description
Rectangular landscape layout colour lithograph poster. Showing a group of twenty-somethings sat on a beach; a woman dressed in a yellow cardigan and white trousers is stretched out on the sand and leaning against her female friend, who is dressed in a blue dress and hat. Opposite them is a man dressed in white casual clothes. A couple are standing together opposite the group and next to them a woman in a white hat is waving to someone who is not in view; with a pier and sea in the background. The image is inscribed: REDCAR ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET FREE FROM TOWN CLERK REDCAR OR ANY L.N.E.R INQUIRY OFFICE.. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.2cm
  • Width: 124.6cm
  • Sheet height: 1260mm
  • Sheet width: 1007mm
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
  • REDCAR ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET FREE FROM TOWN CLERK REDCAR OR ANY L.N.E.R INQUIRY OFFICE. (Inscribed on image as part of design.)
  • (Signed.)
Credit line
Given by the London and North Eastern Railway Co. Ltd
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
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 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Other number
9/A7 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Accession number
E.570-1928

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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