Nov 18, 2009 - Sale 2196

Sale 2196 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ELIJAH ALBERT COX (1876-1955) LONDON CHARACTERS. Group of 4 posters. 1920.
Each approximately 30x19 3/4 inches, 76x50 cm. Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leeds.
Conditions vary, generally A-.
Cox was a painter and poster designer who worked for London Transport as well as railway and shipping companies and the Empire Marketing Board. The London Characters series comprised twelve separate posters. This lot includes The Waterman, Covent Garden Porter, The Yokel, and The News Boy. Each image is a deep, luxurious lithograph, with such extraordinarily precise inking as to make them stand out among the London Transport posters.