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4 Routes To The Continent

Poster
1927 (issued)
Artist/Maker
London and North Eastern Railway (issuer)
Newbould, Frank (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

'4 Routes to the Continent by LNER' (the London & North Eastern Railway). Colour lithograph poster with a stylised graphic of four steamships outlined in black and taupe upon an orange sea. The sea accounts for approximately two thirds of the design and is lettered in white with the text '4 ROUTES TO THE CONTINENT- HARWICH to FLUSHING THE HOOK ANTWERP ESBJERG', with the L.N.E.R. logo below.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
Title4 Routes To The Continent
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'4 Routes To The Continent'. Colour lithograph poster with a stylised graphic of four steamships outlined in black and taupe upon an orange sea. Designed by Frank Newbould and issued by the London and North Eastern Railway, Great Britain, 1927.
Physical description
'4 Routes to the Continent by LNER' (the London & North Eastern Railway). Colour lithograph poster with a stylised graphic of four steamships outlined in black and taupe upon an orange sea. The sea accounts for approximately two thirds of the design and is lettered in white with the text '4 ROUTES TO THE CONTINENT- HARWICH to FLUSHING THE HOOK ANTWERP ESBJERG', with the L.N.E.R. logo below.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.3cm
  • Width: 60.8cm
Measurements 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
  • '4 / ROUTES TO / THE CONTINENT- / HARWICH / to FLUSHING / THE HOOK / ANTWERP / ESBJERG' (Text of design, in white.)
  • 'FRANK / NEWBOULD' (Signed, top-left corner of sheet.)
  • 'Published by the London & North Eastern Railway' (Lettered bottom-left corner of sheet.)
  • 'Printed in England' (Lettered in centre of bottom edge of sheet.)
  • 'Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd Lithographers Leeds' (Lettered bottom-right corner of sheet.)
Credit line
Given by the London and North Eastern Railway
Subjects depicted
Travel
Transport
Steamships
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 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Other number
28/E2 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.573-1928

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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