Due to an incident at Tower Bridge ...

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Artist/Maker	Penguin Books Limited, Puffin Books (issuer) McAllister, Bryan (artist)
Place of origin	London (issued)

''Due to an incident at Tower Bridge please stare into space for 20 minutes' … Travel By Penguin'. Offset lithograph poster, printed in black on a white ground, promoting Penguin Books. The design shows a train platform full of commuters staring straight ahead.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Transport Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Due to an incident at Tower Bridge ...
Materials and techniques	Offset lithograph, printed in black on a white ground Offset Lithography
Brief description	''Due to an incident at Tower Bridge please stare into space for 20 minutes' … Travel By Penguin'. Offset lithograph poster designed by Bryan McAllister and issued by Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, London, 1978.
Physical description	''Due to an incident at Tower Bridge please stare into space for 20 minutes' … Travel By Penguin'. Offset lithograph poster, printed in black on a white ground, promoting Penguin Books. The design shows a train platform full of commuters staring straight ahead.
Dimensions	Height: 76.1cm Width: 50.7cm 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	Signed.
Subjects depicted	Transport Rail Travel Commuter Railways Stations Train Platform Commuters
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	25/F9 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1346-1979

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O551567/due-to-an-incident-at-poster-mcallister-bryan/

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