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Fountains Abbey

Poster
1935 (issued)
Artist/Maker
London and North Eastern Railway (issuer)
Lee, Sydney (R.A., R.E., R.W.S.) (artist)
Place of origin
England (issued)

Colour lithograph poster promoting Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire. Signed 'Sydney Lee'.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleFountains Abbey (trade title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Fountains Abbey'. Colour lithograph poster designed by Lee Sydney and issued by the London and North Eastern Railway, England, 1935.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster promoting Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire. Signed 'Sydney Lee'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 100.97cm
  • Width: 64.14cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO 1963
Marks and inscriptions
'Sydney Lee' (Signed)
Subject depicted
Abbey
Place depicted
Fountains Abbey
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963
  • 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 numbers
  • 24/G4 - V&A microfiche
  • C.6773 - Previous number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.482-1953

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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