DESIGNER UNKNOWN "ADRIATICA" - BENÁTKI. 1936.
40x25 inches, 101 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Barabino & Graeve, Genova.
Condition B / B+: restored losses at edges; repaired tears, creases and overpainting in margins and image and along horizontal folds.
Advertising travel from Venice on the Adriatica di Navigazione Line to "Dalmatia, Albania, Greece, Rhodes Smyrna (modern day Izmir, Turkey) and Egypt. The winged Lion of St. Mark, the symbol of the city of Venice, where the company was based, was also used as the company's logo. This is the rare Czech version. As a small, landlocked country, there was not a lot of ocean liner advertising occurring in pre-war Czechoslovakia.