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Twickenham by Tram

Poster
1924 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issued by)
Kauffer, Edward McKnight (designer)
Place of origin
Greater London (issued)

Colour lithograph poster promoting the use of trams: showing a stylised landscape of a small lake with two sailing boats near the far tree-lined shore, with a house in the distance on the right. There are white lines of movement and reflections on the water's surface. The text is below the image, in red and grey. Signed 'E.McKnight Kauffer. 24'.

Object details

Categories
Advertising
Transport
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleTwickenham by Tram (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Twickenham by Tram'. Colour lithograph poster designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., 1924.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster promoting the use of trams: showing a stylised landscape of a small lake with two sailing boats near the far tree-lined shore, with a house in the distance on the right. There are white lines of movement and reflections on the water's surface. The text is below the image, in red and grey. Signed 'E.McKnight Kauffer. 24'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.2cm
  • Width: 50.48cm
  • See notes field height: 75.6cm
  • See notes field width: 50cm
Second pair of 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
'E.McKnight Kauffer. 24' (Signed and dated.)
Credit line
Presented by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.
Subjects depicted
Travel
Transport
Trees
Lake
Boats
Place depicted
Twickenham
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
21/E8 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.674-1924

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1023499/twickenham-by-tram-poster-kauffer-edward-mcknight/
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