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Pioneers of Ocean Travel

Poster
1928 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (issuer)
Cooper, Austin (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Poster advertising the Royal Mail Line, with the slogan 'Pioneers of Ocean Travel'.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Transport
Advertising
Posters
Tourism & Travel
Object type
Poster
TitlePioneers of Ocean Travel
Materials and techniques
Colour lithography
Paper
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Pioneers of Ocean Travel', colour lithograph poster, designed by Austin Cooper, Great Britain, 1928
Physical description
Poster advertising the Royal Mail Line, with the slogan 'Pioneers of Ocean Travel'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 100.8cm
  • Width: 62.8cm
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 C. G. Holme
Subject depicted
Travel
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 and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Other number
9/A9 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1477-1929

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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