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The Dee

Poster
ca.1923-24 (issued)
Artist/Maker
London and North Eastern Railway (issuer)
Newbould, Frank (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Colour lithograph poster advertising the London and North Eastern Railway, with a central colour image of a stone arch bridge crossing over an area of the River Dee in the midst of steep moorland and trees.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Posters
Scotland
Object type
Poster
TitleThe Dee
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'The Dee'. Colour lithograph poster advertising the London and North Eastern Railway. Designed by Frank Newbould and issued by the London and North Eastern Railway, Great Britain, ca.1923-24.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising the London and North Eastern Railway, with a central colour image of a stone arch bridge crossing over an area of the River Dee in the midst of steep moorland and trees.
Dimensions
  • Height: 100.5cm
  • Width: 126cm
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
  • Signed.
  • 'LNER THE DEE LNER' (Lettered in white above the image.)
  • 'EAST COAST ROUTE FROM KINGS CROSS' (Lettered in white below the image.)
Credit line
Presented by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London
Subjects depicted
Tourism
Rail Travel
River
Moors
Trees
Places depicted
River Dee
Aberdeenshire
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 & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1924, published under the Authority of the Board of Education, London, 1926.
Other number
28/D6 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.333-1924

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O767159/the-dee-poster-newbould-frank/
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