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Spring By Underground

Design
1927-28 (made)
Artist/Maker
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issued by)
Paine, Charles (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Body colour design on two sheets (one the image and the other the lettering) for a poster advertising the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd. The image shows a yellow chick bursting out of its shell, with 'PEEP PEEP PEEP' lettered above its head, against a black background. The sheet with the text is lettered with 'STOP LOOK LISTEN SPRING BY UNDERGROUND'.


Object details

Categories
Designs
Transport
Advertising
Posters
Object type
design
TitleSpring By Underground (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Body colour painting
Body Colour
Painting (Image-Making)
Brief description
Original design for a poster on two sheets (one the image and the other the lettering) issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd. entitled 'Spring By Underground', body colour on paper, signed by Charles Paine, Great Britain, 1927-28.
Physical description
Body colour design on two sheets (one the image and the other the lettering) for a poster advertising the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd. The image shows a yellow chick bursting out of its shell, with 'PEEP PEEP PEEP' lettered above its head, against a black background. The sheet with the text is lettered with 'STOP LOOK LISTEN SPRING BY UNDERGROUND'.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 66.7cm
  • Image width: 55.2cm
  • Text height: 30.5cm
  • Text width: 57.2cm
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
  • 'PEEP / PEEP / PEEP' (Lettered in yellow and white above the chick.)
  • 'STOP / LOOK / LISTEN / SPRING / BY UNDERGROUND' (Lettered as text design.)
  • Signed.
Credit line
Given by the Superintendent of Advertisements, London Underground Electric Railways (UERL)
Subjects depicted
Spring
Egg
Chicks
Flowers
Associated object
CIRC.467A-1928
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
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1928
Other number
29/E6-E7 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.467-1928

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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