Title - Touring In Lakeland? Then see the wonderful scenery of Windermere Lake from one of British Railways Ships 'Swan' 'Teal' 'Swift' 'Tern'.
Location - Windermere, Cumbria / Westmorland / Lancashire, England.
Artist - Leslie Arthur Wilcox (1904-1982).
Description - A side view of one of the Windermere ships, often called yachts, mentioned in the wording of the poster. Lake Windermere was always a popular holiday or day trip destination.
This is a Stock poster, where the image would have been printed seperately, with the wording added later in letterpress form. This way, a part-pictorial poster image could be used for multiple advertising purposes.
The smaller, Double Crown, size of the poster suggests that it would have been intended for use at a non-Railway location where poster boards/frames tended to use this standard size.
Year Published - 1950s
Size - Double Crown (approx 30 x 20in or 76 x 51cm)
Other Details:
Original Vintage British Railways Travel Poster.
Published by British Railways (London Midland Region) HA/47/2/1
Printed by Jordison & Co Ltd, London and Middlesbrough
Condition Grade and Condition Report:
Grade: B+, un-conserved.
Some creasing, small edge tear. 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.