- Title:
Country Walks: Winter
- Date:
- 1957
- Medium:
- Lithograph
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 39 15/16 x 24 7/8 inches (101.4 x 63.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
In brown, in artist's hand, bottom right of image: "Laura Knight". In white type on a brown background, beneath image: " ' 'Tis winter now, and very cold,| With frost and ice and snow...'"" In smaller white type beneath, right: "OLD SONG". In white italic type, beneath quotation: "just the weather for a brisk walk, with the added pleasure of having the countryside mostly | to yourself; London Transport's 'Country Walks' books are reliable and helpful guides.| There are two books, each costing 2/6. They may be had from Underground| bookstalls and Ticket Offices, or from the Publicity Officer, 55 Broadway, S.W.1" In tiny brown type, in white border beneath the image, left: "157/29M/2500"; right: "WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDON & DUNSTABLE".
Lettered, lower center: ""'Tis winter now, and very cold, | With frost and ice and snow…" | - just the weather for a brisk walk, with the added pleasure of having the countryside mostly to yourself. London Transport's 'Country Walks' books are reliable and helpful guides. There are two books, each costing 2/6. They may be had from Underground bookstalls and Ticket Offices, or from the Publicity Officer, 55 Broadway, S.W.I"
In brown, bottom right of image: "Laura Knight"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965
- Copyright Status:
- © TfL
- Accession Number:
- B2000.8.14
- Classification:
- Posters
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- advertisement | branches | country (rural landscape) | landscape | logo | Post-Impressionism | snow | transportation | trees | winter
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Dame Laura Knight, 1877–1970, British, Country Walks: Winter, 1957
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