Product Description
London: Posters from the LTM: Book of Postcards
The world’s first subterranean railway, the London Underground opened in 1863 and now provides three million rides daily. In 1908, Underground executive Frank Pick began seeking out the country’s best artists and designers to produce advertising posters for the expanding transit system. Color printing developments in the last decades of the nineteenth century transformed poster art, and Pick recognized the potential of this graphic medium. The Underground became an important patron of the arts and an acknowledged leader in the field of poster publicity.
For a century, copies of every poster produced for the Underground and its affiliates were kept, and when the collection was transferred to London Transport Museum in the 1980s, it contained more than five thousand printed posters and almost one thousand original artworks. Steadily growing since then, the collection offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of a century of British graphic design. This book of postcards reproduces thirty Underground posters advertising travel in and around London.
Images
- Frederick Charles Herrick (British, 1887–1970), Keeps London’s Heart Aglow, 1925
- Edward Bawden (British, 1903–1989), Changing the Guard, 1925
- Dora M. Batty (British, 1900–1966), Regents Park to See the Rose Garden, 1932
- Joan Beales, London’s Museums, 1955
- George Edward Kruger Gray (British, 1880–1943) and Dorothy Hutton (British, 1889–1984), Historical London: No. 4, St. James’s Palace, 1922
- Reginald Percy Gossop (British, 1876–1951), Ernest Wallcousins (British, 1883–1976), Eric George Fraser (British, 1902–1983), Gerald Dickson, and Frank Adams, The Panorama of London, 1925
- Verney L. Danvers (British, 1895–1973), Underground, Theatres, 1926
- Charles W. Baker, Oxford Circus – The New Station, 1925
- Fred Taylor (British, 1875–1963), London Memories: Hampstead, 1918
- John Banting (British, 1902–1972), South Kensington, 1936
- Edward Bawden (British, 1903–1989), Hyde Park, 1925
- Edward Bawden (British, 1903–1989), City, 1952
- George Edward Kruger Gray (British, 1880–1943) and Dorothy Hutton (British, 1889–1984), Historical London: No. 1, The Tower, 1922
- Ronald Glendening (British, 1926–2013), Bands in the Park, 1973
- Ernest Michael Dinkel (British, 1894–1983), The West-End Is Awakening, 1931
- Bruce Angrave (British, 1914–1983), Sir Christopher Wren, 1964
- Ernest Michael Dinkel (British, 1894–1983), Visit the Empire, 1932
- Charles Paine (British, 1895–1967), For the Zoo, Book to Regent’s Park, 1921
- Mary Adshead (British, 1904–1995), Country Joys on London’s Underground, 1927
- Molly Moss, Out and About: Winter London, 1950
- Austin Cooper (Canadian, 1890–1964), Natural History Museum, Lepidoptera, 1928
- Charles Atkinson (British, 1879–1957), The Circus, 1933
- John Griffiths, Covent Garden: Rhubarb and Roses, 1965
- F. Gregory Brown (British, 1887–1941), Kew Gardens, 1933
- Charles W. Baker, Chancery Lane, 1934
- Horace Taylor (British, 1881–1934), Brightest London Is Best Reached by Underground, 1924
- Andrew Hall, The Imperial War Museum, 1965
- Maurice Wilson (British, 1914–1987), Enjoy Your London: No. 5, Flowers in the Parks, 1949
- Cecil Walter Bacon (British, 1905–1992), To the Cinemas, 1934
- Anthony Green (British, b. 1939), The Royal Academy, 1990
Pomegranate’s books of postcards contain up to thirty top-quality reproductions bound together in a handy, artful collection. Easy to remove and produced on heavy card stock, these stunning postcards are a delight to the sender and receiver. Postcards are oversized and may require additional postage.