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Book to Regent's Park or Camden Town for the Zoo

Poster
1920 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issued by)
Burroughes, Dorothy Mary (designer)
Place of origin
London (issued)

'Book to Regent’s Park or Camden Town for the Zoo'. Colour lithograph poster issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd. Signed.


Object details

Categories
Advertising
Transport
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleBook to Regent's Park or Camden Town for the Zoo
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Printing Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Book to Regent’s Park or Camden Town for the Zoo'. Colour lithograph poster. Signed. Designed by Dorothy Mary Burroughes. Issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd. 1920.
Physical description
'Book to Regent’s Park or Camden Town for the Zoo'. Colour lithograph poster issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 99.6cm
  • Width: 60.2cm
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
(Signed.)
Credit line
Presented by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.
Object history
Commercial Art stated of this poster in 1920 that ‘Miss Burroughes is a magician, who by the simple, though difficult device, of elimination, and my means of her unerring colour-sense, can transform an ugly little brute and a sad little captive into an aristocrat of the Simian tribe’. Well known for her zoo posters and skill in illustrating animals for children's books later in her career, she made various references to animal rights and welfare. In an interview with Drawing & Design of 1923 she said 'it was heart breaking to look into the eyes of the caged lions, imprisoned in their enclosures. [Their] eyes were too full of dreams and pain and captivity to bear looking at, and to attempt to draw them seemed sacrilege’.
Subjects depicted
Transport
Zoo
Places depicted
Regent's Park
Camden
Associated object
CIRC.844-1926 (Original)
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 1920, London: HMSO, 1922.
Other number
8/A3 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.4302-1920

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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