?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
FRANK NEWBOULD (1887-1950) TO EUROPE VIA AMERICA / THE "BIG SHIP" ROUTE. Circa 1920. 40x25 inches, 101 1/2x63 1/2 cm. The Baynard Press, London. Condition B+ / B: restoration, repaired tears, overpainting and creases in margins and image; horizontal folds. A monumental image of the bustle and majesty of New York Harbor teaming with tugboats beneath the massive splendor of some of the world's most famous buildings: the Woolworth Building and the Barclay-Vesey Building (now more commonly known as the New York Telephone Building). These were two of the most visible edifices in the city prior to the construction of the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings in the early 1930s. In fact, New York is such an impressive city that Newbould focuses almost entirely on her and barely illustrates one of the most famous ships in the White Star Line's fleet, the Olympic, sister ship to the ill-fated Titanic. Although virtually identical in appearance to the Titanic (minus all of the ultra-luxurious trappings), all that is visible here of the Olympic is her stern and a White Star flag flying from one of her masts. It is left to the viewer's imagination to determine the dimensions of a ship that could transport one to such a magnificent, prominent and important locale. This is the Australian version of the poster advertising travel to Europe via America. The European version reads, "White Star to New York." The Big Ship Route entailed sailing from Sydney to Vancouver, then across America by train, or alternately, via Panama Pacific Lines through the Panama Canal to New York, then by White Star to Europe.
