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Picnics. Take The Motor-Bus For Picnicing

Poster
1921 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. The design shows a couple sitting having a picnic on a white and red rug alongside a tree-lined waterway. 'Picnics. Take The Motor-Bus For Picnicing' is lettered in yellow at the bottom of the image.

Object details

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Object type
TitlePicnics. Take The Motor-Bus For Picnicing
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
'Picnics. Take The Motor-Bus For Picnicing'. Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. Designed by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson and issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., 1921.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. The design shows a couple sitting having a picnic on a white and red rug alongside a tree-lined waterway. 'Picnics. Take The Motor-Bus For Picnicing' is lettered in yellow at the bottom of the image.
Dimensions
  • Height: 100.2cm
  • Width: 62.5cm
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
  • 'C.R.W. Nevinson' (Signed.)
  • 'PICNICS / TAKE THE MOTOR-BUS / FOR PICNICING' (Lettered in black at the bottom of the image.)
Credit line
Presented by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
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
28/C2 - v&a MICROFICHE
Collection
Accession number
E.1337-1921

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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