Victoria Embankment
Poster
1926 (issued)
1926 (issued)
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Monica Rawlins was a poster designer, portrait painter and woodcut artist. She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Leon Underwood between 1925 and 1928, designing this single poster for the LCCT in 1926. She left her diaries to the National Library of Wales which span the majority of her life (with gaps) beginning at the age of seven in 1910 and ending two years before her death in 1990. A short BBC Radio 4 drama based on diaries entitled 'Writing the Century: The View from the Windows' was released in 2015.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Victoria Embankment (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Poster for London Tramways (LCCT) by Monica Rawlins depicting the Victoria Embankment. Great Britain, 1926. |
| Physical description | Colour poster |
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| Credit line | Given by the London County Council Tramways |
| Summary | Monica Rawlins was a poster designer, portrait painter and woodcut artist. She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Leon Underwood between 1925 and 1928, designing this single poster for the LCCT in 1926. She left her diaries to the National Library of Wales which span the majority of her life (with gaps) beginning at the age of seven in 1910 and ending two years before her death in 1990. A short BBC Radio 4 drama based on diaries entitled 'Writing the Century: The View from the Windows' was released in 2015. |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1926, London: Board of Education, 1927. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.11-1926 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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