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Ronald T Horley (active 1930s - 1940s)
The Gateway to Cornwall
Charcoal heightened with white 76 x 53 cm Signed and inscribed lower right 'Architect's Office, 83 Marlborough Place NW8 Marylebone'. The Great Western Railway commissioned a series of posters promoting train travel around the UK. This charcoal drawing of the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash is the artist's original design for a poster encouraging rail travel to Devon and Cornwall. The bridge is known fondly as the 'Gateway to Cornwall'. The Royal Albert Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Surveying started in 1848 and construction commenced in 1854. The first main span was positioned in 1857 and the completed bridge was opened by Prince Albert on 2 May 1859. Condition: generally very good; a few isolated spots to bottom left corner. Click here for other original vintage travel posters and designs. -
Anonymous Tours and Excursions
Original Coach Poster 75x50cm Cool and crazy mid-century lettering. Poster with area for completion with details of a coach tour. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Uxbridge Station Poster c.1930 Printed by HMSO
Lithograph 100x62cm This four coloured lithograph was printed in extremely limited numbers for London Transport by HMSO. These maps detailed station entrances and were placed along the underground network to inform commuters exactly where they were in London. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good, slight bruising to the very edges in places, and a little touching in of the red border. -
Vorarlberg Austria
Lithographic poster Printed G Gistel 81x50cm If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Waimea Bay, Hawaii 1964 Vintage Surfing Poster of Mike Doyle Champion Surfer
67 x 53 cm Poster (lithograph) Printed by Looart Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado (1964) Waimea Bay Hawaii vintage 1964 surfing poster, with photograph of legendary surfer Mike Doyle on a wave on the north coast of Hawaii, taken by the iconic Californian surf photographer Leroy Grannis (1917-2011). Born in California in 1941, Doyle was first capitvated at the age of thirteen by surfing. The epitome of a surfer; tanned, chiseled features, charismatic and permanently smiling. He won readers polls in 1964 and 1965 in Surfer magazine, and in 1966 was voted Surfer's 'Top International Surfer'. Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. The poster is in generally excellent condition. -
Walther Koch (1875-1915) Zug Berg und Strassenbahn
Original lithographic poster (1914) 40x30" Printed in Zurich by Anstalt Gebr Fretz If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
XVIes Jeux Olympiques d'Hiver (Albertville 1992)
Lithograph 80 x 61 cm This poster advertises the 1992 Winter Olympics. It features a snowy-white mountain against a bright blue sky, with a golden sun in the shape of a star above right, and the Olympic rings below. Condition: backed to linen; generally very good; some staining to right hand side that could be covered by a mount. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters.