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Design for Tramways or Underground poster

Poster Design
ca.1933 (made)
Artist/Maker
London Passenger Transport Board (issued by)
Meldrum, Roy (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Original design for a poster for the London Passenger Transport Board. A colourful, stylised illustration in body colour and pencil.

Object details

Categories
Designs
Illustration
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster Design
TitleDesign for Tramways or Underground poster (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Drawn and painted using pencil and body colour
Pencil
Body Colour
Drawing (Image-Making)
Painting (Image-Making)
Brief description
Roy Meldrum; 'Something different at every town, Tramways or Underground' design for a poster, ca. 1933
Physical description
Original design for a poster for the London Passenger Transport Board. A colourful, stylised illustration in body colour and pencil.
Dimensions
  • Height: 91.3cm
  • Width: 62.4cm
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
Production typeDesign
Object history
Design for a poster, possibly for London Transport Advertising Kensington Gardens.

The London Transport Museum has an impression of the poster, printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd, dated 1933. It bears the London Passenger Transport Board Logo instead of the L.T.Bullseye.
Subject depicted
Horses
Bibliographic reference
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
Other number
26/G2 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.581-1981

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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