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Buckingham Palace

Poster
1953 (issued)
Artist/Maker
London Transport Executive (issuer)
Bainbridge, John (designer)
Place of origin
London (issued)

Colour poster with a view of Buckingham Palace.

Object details

Categories
Advertising
Prints
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster
Titles
  • Buckingham Palace (published title)
  • Royal London (series title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Lithography
Brief description
'Buckingham Palace'. Poster designed by John Bainbridge and issued by the London Transport Executive, colour lithography, 1953.
Physical description
Colour poster with a view of Buckingham Palace.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.6cm
  • Width: 63.5cm
Dimensions 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.
Credit line
Given by the London Transport Executive
Place depicted
Buckingham Palace
Associated object
E.1591A-1953 (Part)
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
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963
Other number
2/C2 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1591-1953

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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