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Pleasure. One Way To Pleasure - By Motor-Bus

Poster Design
1921 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issued by)
Nevinson, Christopher Richard Wynne (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)
London (issued)

Original design for a poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. The design shows two men and two women dancing as a group, a blue sky with white clouds above them, and 'Pleasure. One Way To Pleasure – By Motor-Bus' lettered in black at the bottom of the image.

Object details

Categories
Designs
Advertising
Transport
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster design
TitlePleasure. One Way To Pleasure - By Motor-Bus
Materials and techniques
Body colour
Body Colour
Painting (Image-Making)
Brief description
'Pleasure. One Way To Pleasure - By Motor-Bus'. Original design for a poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. Designed by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (the final poster was issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.), 1921.
Physical description
Original design for a poster advertising the London General Omnibus Company. The design shows two men and two women dancing as a group, a blue sky with white clouds above them, and 'Pleasure. One Way To Pleasure – By Motor-Bus' lettered in black at the bottom of the image.
Dimensions
  • Height: 98.7cm
  • Width: 62.4cm
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
  • 'C.R.W. Nevinson' (Signed.)
  • 'PLEASURE / ONE WAY TO PLEASURE / BY MOTOR-BUS' (Lettered in black at the bottom of the image.)
Credit line
Given by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.
Production
The final poster was issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd. in 1921.
Subjects depicted
Men
Women
Dancing
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 and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1926, London: Board of Education, 1927.
Other number
28/C1 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1008-1926

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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