Aug 07, 2002 - Sale 1941

Sale 1941 - Lot 421

Unsold
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
PERCY SPENCE CORNISH RIVIERA / GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. 1928.
39 1/2x50 inches. J. Weiner, London.
Condition B: replaced paper in top corners; repaired tears, creases and overpainting in margins; tears through left margins affecting image.
A colorful and fanciful page out of British history depicting "The Vikings Landing on St. Ives Beach" in reds, blues, greens and browns; within a gray border. In this Great Western poster, "Cornwall was promoted as . . . a land of legend, superstition and romance, the home of the wild and the imaginative" (Railway p. 31).