Title – London St Pauls GWR.
Location - London, England.
Artist - Frank H Mason (1875-1965).
Description - Mason's immediate post-war view shows Sir Christopher Wren's magnificent dome and towers of St Paul's Cathedral rising above the London cityscape. The viewpoint is from the south bank of the River Thames just outside the OXO Tower and Sea Containers House, looking across and down river.
Blackfriars Bridge is filled with traffic, with the railway bridge just behind it. The river is busy with Thames Barges and Tugs plying their trade or moored by the banks.
At the bottom are two lines from the middle of the poem "London" by John Davidson.
Year Published - 1946
Size - Double Royal (approx 40 x 25in or 101.5 x 63.5cm)
Other Details:
Original Vintage GWR British Railway Travel Poster.
PW 18, Paddington Station, London, W2
James Milne, General Manager
Printed in Great Britain by WM. Brown & Co Ltd, London.
Condition Grade and Condition Report:
Grade: B+/A-, un-conserved.
Minor creasing, small tear centre bottom edge and some tiny edge nicks, slight age-browning. Quite thin paper. More detailed photos are available on request if required.
More About The Artist:
Frank H Mason was born Frank Henry Algernon Mason in 1875, in County Durham, the son of a railway clerk. By 1900 he had decided to be a full time artist. During WWI he was a shipping war artist of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. A number of his paintings from that period are in the Imperial War Museum. From the 1920s he produced the artwork for a huge number of posters for the railway companies. He was elected to both the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. He was exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1902 onwards, and is represented in many galleries.
