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Home Counties

Poster
1924 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issuer)
The Avenue Press (printer)
Nevinson, Christopher Richard Wynne (artist)
Place of origin
London (issued)
London (printed)

Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company, part of the 'Home Counties' series. The design has a central colour image of a thick-trunked tree partly obscuring the view out over a sunny countryside landscape. Text lettered below the image, including a passage from the poem 'Leisure' by William H. Davies.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
Titles
  • Home Counties (series title)
  • No. 2. Bucks
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'No. 2. Bucks'. Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company, part of the 'Home Counties' series. Designed by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson and issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., 1924.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company, part of the 'Home Counties' series. The design has a central colour image of a thick-trunked tree partly obscuring the view out over a sunny countryside landscape. Text lettered below the image, including a passage from the poem 'Leisure' by William H. Davies.
Dimensions
  • Height: 100.5cm
  • Width: 63.2cm
Measurements 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
  • 'C. R. W. NEVINSON' (Signed, bottom-right corner of image.)
  • 'HOME COUNTIES / No.2 Bucks.' (Title lettered below the image, to the left, in green.)
  • 'THE / GENERAL / WAY' (Lettered in the centre at the bottom of the design.)
  • '"What is this life, if, full of care, / We have no time to stand and stare? / No time to stand beneath the boughs / And stare as long as sheep or cows …" / William H. Davies' (Title lettered below the image, to the right, in green.)
  • Details of services 81 and 98 lettered in white boxes at the bottom of the design.
  • 'Reg. No. R1611 1000. 1-8-24. ELECTRIC RAILWAY HOUSE WESTMINSTER' (Lettered along the bottom-left border of the sheet.)
  • 'THE AVENUE PRESS, 56-57, DRURY LANE, LONDON, W.C[?].1.' (Lettered along the bottom-right border of the sheet.)
Credit line
Presented by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.
Subjects depicted
Trees
Poetry
Landscape
Place depicted
Buckinghamshire
Literary reference<u>Leisure</u>, a poem by William H. Davies, ca.1911.
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 1924, published under the Authority of the Board of Education, London, 1926.
Other number
28/C6 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.679-1924

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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