Twickenham by Tram

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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'.

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Categories	Advertising Transport Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Twickenham by Tram (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph Colour Lithography
Brief description	Designed by E.McKnight Kauffer: Twickenham by tram
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: 76.4cm Width: 51.4cm 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. 24' (Signed and dated.)
Subjects depicted	Travel Transport
Place depicted	Twickenham
Associated objects	E.674-1924 (Duplicate) CIRC.619-1924 (Design)
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 1971
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	CIRC.404-1971

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1035631/twickenham-by-tram-poster-kauffer-edward-mcknight/

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