Title - Bristol - Romantic Centre for a Delightful Holiday - Travel By Train.
Location - Bristol, England.
Artist - Leslie Arthur Wilcox (1904-1982).
Description - People are shown walking alonside the River Avon, through the highly scenic Avon Gorge and amongst the pigeons, with the Clifton Suspension Bridge above them.
Year Published - 1950s
Size - Double Royal (approx 40 x 25in or 101.5 x 63.5cm) plus linen border.
Other Details:
Original Vintage British Railway Travel Poster.
Published by British Railways (Western Region) P.R. 101
Printed in Great Britain by Waterlow & Sons Limited, London and Dunstable
Condition Grade and Condition Report:
Grade: A, conservation-backed on linen.
Backed on stiff linen as acquired. More detailed photos are available on request if required.
More About The Artist:
Leslie Arthur Wilcox RI, RSMA, was born in Fulham in 1904.
He was known mainly as a marine artist working in oils, but was also a watercolourist, illustrator, poster artist, marine model-maker and author. He was for some years Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. His works are in many collections around the world, including the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and the Royal Collection.
He volunteered for the navy before conscription started, and had spent only a few months in the Naval Patrol Service before his skills were recognised and he was seconded to the Naval Camouflage unit at Leamington Spa, where he spent the rest of the war making model ships and testing camouflage designs.
