Go Great Western to Cornwall

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Artist/Maker	Great Western Railway (issuer) Kauffer, Edward McKnight (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

Colour lithograph poster advertising the Great Western Railway. The design is a black and orange/yellow image showing a coastline at sunset, with rays of light reflecting on ripples in the water by the rocks edge.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Transport Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Go Great Western to Cornwall (trade title)
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph Lithographic Ink Colour Lithography
Brief description	'Go Great Western To Cornwall'. Colour lithograph poster designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Issued by the Great Western Railway, Great Britain, 1932.
Physical description	Colour lithograph poster advertising the Great Western Railway. The design is a black and orange/yellow image showing a coastline at sunset, with rays of light reflecting on ripples in the water by the rocks edge.
Dimensions	Height: 101.6cm Width: 63.5cm From departmental notes.
Credit line	Given by the Underground Electric Railways Co.
Subjects depicted	Travel Transport Sunset Coastline Sea
Place depicted	Cornwall
Associated objects	E.1044-2004 (Duplicate) E.479-1953 (Series) CIRC.401-1971 (Series)
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 1933, London: Printed under the Authority of the Board of Education 1934
Other number	22/B3 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.545-1933

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O742746/go-great-western-to-cornwall-poster-kauffer-edward-mcknight/

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