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Hampton Court by Tram

Poster
1922 (issued), 1922 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issued by)
Paine, Charles (artist)
Place of origin
London (issued)

Colour lithograph poster showing a stylised illustration of Henry VIII and his six wives, a red watering can and three peacocks against a blue ground. 'HAMPTON COURT BY TRAM' lettered below the image in black.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleHampton Court by Tram
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Hampton Court by Tram'. Colour lithograph poster showing a stylised illustration of Henry VIII and his six wives. Designed by Charles Paine and issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., 1922.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster showing a stylised illustration of Henry VIII and his six wives, a red watering can and three peacocks against a blue ground. 'HAMPTON COURT BY TRAM' lettered below the image in black.
Dimensions
  • Height: 75.7cm
  • Width: 50cm
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
  • 'HAMPTON COURT / BY TRAM'

    Note
    Lettered below the image in black.

  • 'Charles Paine /22'

    Note
    Signed and dated.

Credit line
Presented by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.
Subjects depicted
Tourism
History
Peacock
Garden
Watering Can
Plant Pots
Henry VIII (King of England and Ireland)
Catherine of Aragon (Queen of England, First Consort of Henry VIII)
Boleyn, Anne (Queen of England, Second Consort of Henry VIII)
Seymour, Jane (Queen of England, Third Consort of Henry VIII)
Anne of Cleves (Queen of England, Fourth Consort of Henry VIII)
Howard, Catherine (Queen of England and Ireland, Fifth Consort of Henry VIII)
Parr, Katherine (Queen of England and Ireland, Sixth Consort of Henry VIII)
Place depicted
Hampton Court
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
  • Foister, Susan. Holbein in England. London: Tate Publishing, 2006, p. 102
  • 100 Great Paintings in The Victoria & Albert Museum.London: V&A, 1985, pp. 38-39. 220 p. : col. ill. 094810769X (hbk.); 0905209370 (pbk.).
  • Susan Doran, ed. Henry VIII. Man & Monarch. London: British Library, 2009, p. 222 / ISBN: 978 0 7123 5026 6
  • Marks, Richard and Paul Williamson, eds. Gothic: Art for England, 1400-1547. London: V&A Publications, 2003. 496 p.: ill. 1851774017 (hbk); 1851774025 (pbk).
  • Strong, R. and Murrell V., Artists of the Tudor Court. The Portrait Miniature Rediscovered 1520-1620 (exh. cat.), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1983, pp. 48-9
  • Marks, R. and Williamson, Paul, assisted by E. Townsend (eds.), Gothic, Art for England 1400-1547 (exh. cat.), Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2003, p. 159
  • Trusted, Marjorie, Baroque & Later Ivories, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2013, cat. no. 121
  • p. 140, fig.128 Les Tudors sous la direction scientifique de Charlotte Bolland et Cécile Maisonneuve. Paris : Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand palais : Musée du Luxembourg-Sénat, c2015. ISBN: 9782711862368.
  • p. 10 Catharine MacLeod with Rab MacGibbon, Victoria Button, Katherine Coombs and Alan Derbyshire.‎ Elizabethan treasures : miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver. London : National Portrait Gallery, 2019.‎ ISBN: 9781855147027‎
  • Charlotte Bolland (Author) Suzannah Lipscomb (Contributor) Alden Gregory (Contributor) Benjamin Hebbert (Contributor )Brett Dolman (Contributor) Nicola Clark (Associate lecturer in history), (Contributor) Nicola Tallis(Contributor) Six lives: the stories of Henry VIII's queens London: National Portrait Gallery Publ. 2024 ISBN: 9781855145290, 1855145294
Other number
29/D11 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1091-1922

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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