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On display at V&A South Kensington
British Galleries, Room 125, Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery

Swift Cycles

Poster
c.1898 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

'Swift Cycles'. Poster advertising a make of bicycle, showing three illustrated figures riding bikes: one woman in the foreground in contemporaneous olive green skirt and jacket with huge puffed sleeves, her petticoat slightly showing, red gloves, and black wide brimmed hat with huge green bow, with a large brown bow in her hair at the back; behind her is a man in light brown tweed suit, handlebar moustache and monocle; in the background is another man of similar appearance but in a green suit. A roundel with three Prince of Wales feathers is top left . Colour lithograph on a pea-green background. Signed.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSwift Cycles
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
Colour lithograph poster advertising 'Swift Cycles' by Tom (Thomas Arthur) Browne. Great Britain. c.1898.
Physical description
'Swift Cycles'. Poster advertising a make of bicycle, showing three illustrated figures riding bikes: one woman in the foreground in contemporaneous olive green skirt and jacket with huge puffed sleeves, her petticoat slightly showing, red gloves, and black wide brimmed hat with huge green bow, with a large brown bow in her hair at the back; behind her is a man in light brown tweed suit, handlebar moustache and monocle; in the background is another man of similar appearance but in a green suit. A roundel with three Prince of Wales feathers is top left . Colour lithograph on a pea-green background. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 96.8cm
  • Width: 63.4cm
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 Noel D. Sheffield
Subjects depicted
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 Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1939, published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, London, 1950
Other number
7/D1 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Accession number
E.533-1939

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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