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Come In to Play

Poster
1937 (issued)
Artist/Maker
London Passenger Transport Board (issued by)
Nash, Paul (artist)
Nash, Paul (artist)
Place of origin
London (issued)
London (printed)
Great Britain (made)

Colour lithograph poster promoting the use of season tickets. The design shows a painted suburban scene (the same as in CIRC.308-1975) viewed in rainy weather, with a green season train ticket linking it to a black and white image of the Shaftesbury Monument Memorial Fountain in Picadilly Circus within a circle. The text 'COME IN TO PLAY' is lettered above the image. Signed 'Paul Nash'.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Entertainment & Leisure
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleCome In to Play
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Paper
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Come In to Play'. Colour lithograph poster promoting the use of season tickets. Designed by Paul Nash and issued by the London Passenger Transport Board, 1937.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster promoting the use of season tickets. The design shows a painted suburban scene (the same as in CIRC.308-1975) viewed in rainy weather, with a green season train ticket linking it to a black and white image of the Shaftesbury Monument Memorial Fountain in Picadilly Circus within a circle. The text 'COME IN TO PLAY' is lettered above the image. Signed 'Paul Nash'.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Paul Nash' (Signed.)
  • 'COME OUT TO LIVE' (Lettered above the image.)
  • '3rd Class Quarterly Season Ticket between / Tooting Broadway / and / Piccadilly Circus / VIA WATERLOO OR ELEPHANT & CASTLE' (Part of text lettered on the travel ticket featured in the design.)
  • 'THE BAYNARD PRESS' (Lettered in bottom-right corner of sheet.)
Credit line
The Paul Nash Trust
Object history
This poster was issued to promote the use of season tickets, particularly for daily commuting from the suburbs into the City.
Subjects depicted
Rail Travel
Transport
Commuting
Suburbs
Trees
Tickets
Suburbs
Fountain
Cars
Memorial
Places depicted
London
Piccadilly Circus
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
  • Postan, A. The complete graphic work of Paul Nash. London. 1973. L19.
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1975
Other number
28/B2 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.308A-1975

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Record createdJune 29, 2011
Record URL
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