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Drawing

ca.1931 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for a poster depicting a crowd of fashionable young men and women, some standing and some seated around tables. In the background a jazz band is playing (including a man on the grand piano and severl men playing brass instruments) and a woman in a blue dress is dancing.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tempera on paper
Brief description
Drawing by Harold Sandys Williamson, original design for poster advertising the Underground Railways, 'Why not the thrilling 'thirties?,' tempera, Britain, ca.1931
Physical description
Design for a poster depicting a crowd of fashionable young men and women, some standing and some seated around tables. In the background a jazz band is playing (including a man on the grand piano and severl men playing brass instruments) and a woman in a blue dress is dancing.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.875in
  • Width: 18.75in
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933.
Credit line
Given by the Underground Electric Railways Co.
Subjects depicted
Association
Associated object
E.123-1932 (Object)
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933.
Collection
Accession number
E.125-1932

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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