-
Highways of Empire
Gill, - Enlarge image
Highways of Empire
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
Great Britain, UK (issued)
- Date:
1927 (designed)
1927 (issued) - Artist/Maker:
Gill, (Leslie) Macdonald, born 1884 - died 1947 (artist)
Empire Marketing Board (issuer)
Waterlow & Sons (printer) - Materials and Techniques:
Colour lithography
- Museum number:
E.28-1928
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, room 514, case PR, shelf 53, box R
Physical description
'Highways of Empire'. Colour lithograph poster showing a half circle Mercator projection of a map of the world, with The British Empire in its traditional pink. The rest of the world is in yellow, Antarctica in white, and the seas in grey. All the main sea and air routes of the time are shown with their mileages, some with representations of ships and a single biplane at the top. Around the top of the globe are the sun, moon and stars, with roundel figures representing blowing winds each with an inscription - 'Zephyrus, Boreas, Corus, Aquillo, Eurus, Auster,' around the outside. Five columns of text below the image. Signed and dated '1927'.
Place of Origin
Great Britain, UK (issued)
Date
1927 (designed)
1927 (issued)
Artist/maker
Gill, (Leslie) Macdonald, born 1884 - died 1947 (artist)
Empire Marketing Board (issuer)
Waterlow & Sons (printer)
Materials and Techniques
Colour lithography
Dimensions
Height: 102.2 cm, Width: 151.2 cm
Descriptive line
'Highways of Empire'. Colour lithograph poster showing a half circle Mercator projection of a map of the world. Designed by (Leslie) Macdonald Gill. Issued by the Empire Marketing Board. Great Britain. 1927.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
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
The full text of the entry is as follows:
'GILL, (Leslie) Macdonald (1884-1947)
...
Highways of Empire. Poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board. 1927 S/D 1927 CL 102.2 x 151.2 cm
E.28-1928 fiche 15/E12
Another impression of the above (E.28-1928).
E.80-1968'
Techniques
Colour lithography
Subjects depicted
Travel; Stars; Ships; Sun; Moon; Map; Roundels; British Empire; Zephyrus; Airplane; Boreas; World maps; Mercator projection; Corus; Aquilo; Eurus; Auster
Categories
Prints; Propaganda; Posters
Collection code
PDP
