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All passengers and stores aboard?

Poster
1965 (issued)
Artist/Maker
London Transport Board (issued by)
Burningham, John Mackintosh (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

‘All passengers and stores aboard?’. Colour offset lithograph poster advertising ‘A Day on the River’, a manual of navigation, issued by the London Transport Board. Signed and dated ‘John Burningham 64’.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Entertainment & Leisure
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleAll passengers and stores aboard? (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Printing Ink
Paper
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
‘All passengers and stores aboard?’. Colour offset lithograph poster advertising ‘A Day on the River’, a manual of navigation, issued by the London Transport Board. Signed and dated. Designed by John Macintosh Burningham. Issued by the London Transport Board. 1965.
Physical description
‘All passengers and stores aboard?’. Colour offset lithograph poster advertising ‘A Day on the River’, a manual of navigation, issued by the London Transport Board. Signed and dated ‘John Burningham 64’.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101cm
  • Width: 63.4cm
Dimensions taken from: Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1965 published by HMSO 1966
Marks and inscriptions
'John Burningham 64' (Signed and dated.)
Credit line
Given by the London Transport Board
Subjects depicted
Transport
Rivers
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1965 pub. HMSO 1966
  • 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
7/G3 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.664-1965

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O696693/all-passengers-and-stores-aboard-poster-burningham-john-mackintosh/
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