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Brighton Railway for Isle of Wight poster

Collection:  NRM - Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills
Object Name:  poster
Maker:  Waterlow & Sons Ltd; London, Brighton & South Coast Railway
Place Made:  London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom; Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Date Made:  1905-1915
Materials:  paper
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Description:  Poster, London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, Brighton Railway for Isle of Wight, about 1910. Coloured lithograph depicting a naval officer looking through a telescope. A circular vignette shows his view, a fashionably dressed woman in a white dress carrying a red parasol, and a girl in a white dress modelled on a sailor's uniform. The girl is waving. In the background is a coastal town, perhaps Ryde or Cowes, with the Needles in the distance. There are yachts and a destroyer at sea. The LBSCR company crest is at bottom left, and the words "Victoria and London Bridge Stations for Isle of Wight" inset in a box at right. Format double royal.

Object Number:  1998-11346

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Waterlow and Sons Limited
1810-c. 1960, poster printer; printer, Dunstable and London
London, Brighton & South Coast Railway
1846-1922, railway company, England, United Kingdom
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