NORMAN WILKINSON (1882-1971)
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FIVE ROUTES TO IRELAND. Circa 1925.
40x25 inches, 100
1
/
2
x63
1
/
2
cm. Staffords, Netherfield.
Condition B+: tears at edges; creases in margins and image; paper banner attached in text. Paper.
A tranquil, pastel-hued twilight scene on the Irish Sea. The LMS serviced five separate coastal towns
with ferry crossings to Ireland in order to facilitate travelling between Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Wilkinson studied at the Berkhampsted School of Art and began his artistic career contributing
drawings to
The Illustrated London News
and
The Illustrated Mail
. He also studied figure painting at
the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Although he became specifically renowned for his
maritime paintings, he was also a prolific poster artist for the British railway companies in the 1920s
and 30s.
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N. CRAMER ROBERTS (DATES UNKNOWN)
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DUNGENESS / BY THE ROMNEY, HYTHE AND DYMCHURCH RAILWAY. 1928.
39
3
/
4
x25 inches, 101x63
1
/
2
cm. Vincent, Brooks, Day & Son, [London].
Condition B+: vertical and horizontal folds; minor tears and losses at edges and in corners. Paper.
One of two posters the artist designed for the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RHDR), the
other featuring stylish passengers boarding a train. “The RHDR was founded in Kent in 1927 as a
mainline railway in miniature and became known as ‘the World’s Smallest Public Railway’”
(
). Furness vol. 5 p. 113.
[800/1,200]
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