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The Fall of the Countryside

Poster
1931 (designed), 1931 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issued by)
Dinkel, Ernest Michael (artist)
Place of origin
London (issued)

'The Fall of the Countryside – but there is still freedom and freshness'.Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. Signed and dated.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleThe Fall of the Countryside
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph print
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'The Fall of the Countryside – but there is still freedom and freshness'.Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. Design by Ernest Michael Dinkel. Issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd. Great Britain. 1931.
Physical description
'The Fall of the Countryside – but there is still freedom and freshness'.Colour lithograph poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. Signed and dated.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.7cm
  • Width: 63cm
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 and dated '1931'.)
Credit line
General by the Underground Electric Railways Co.
Subject depicted
Transport
Associated objects
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 & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933
Other number
10/G6 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3336-1932

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O743705/the-fall-of-the-countryside-poster-dinkel-ernest-michael/
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