England Gallery

The Devon Belle, SR poster, 1947

Poster produced for Southern Railway (SR) to promote rail services between the West of England and Waterloo Station, London. The poster shows The Devon Belle, an all-Pullman locomotive with an observation carriage travelling at speed through a light-coloured, nearly monotonal landscape. The service ran on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays and called at Sidmouth Junction, Exeter Central, Ilfracombe and Plymouth Friary. Artwork by Marc Fernand Severin, who was born in Brussels and lived in England from 1932 to 1940 and from 1945 to 1949, working first as Art Director at an advertising agency and then as a free-lance artist, advertising designer and book illustrator. Dimensions: 1016 mm x 1270 mm

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Ullswater - English Lake-Land, LNER poster, 1923-1947

Poster produced for the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER), promoting rail travel to Ullswater in Cumbria, showing a small steamer boat sailing on the lake, surrounded by the hills and mountains of the Lake District. Ullwater is the second largest lake in England, after Lake Windermere. Artwork by John Littlejohns (b 1874). Printed by The Dangerfield Printing Co Ltd, London

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The Colleges of Cambridge, BR poster, 1948-1965

Poster produced for British Railways (BR) to promote rail travel to the historic university city of Cambridge. The poster shows a map-like aerial view of the college buildings with their heraldic shields. Artwork by Fred Taylor (1875-1963), who was commissioned in 1930 to design four ceiling paintings for the Underwriting Room at Lloyd's and murals for Reed's Lacquer Room. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and other London galleries and worked for LNER, London Transport and several shipping companies

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