£3.99 – £14.00
This is a fantastic reproduction is of the Boat Race Poster 1926 by the artist F.H. Stingemore created to promote that year’s Boat Race rowing competition between Oxford and Cambridge. Between 1914 and 1942 Stingemore created many great poster designs for both the London’s Underground Group and London Transport. He joined the Underground Group in 1919 and worked in the Publicity Managers Office designing several posters for the company. He is probably best known for his Underground Maps of London around 1928, pre-dating the Harry Beck maps by a decade.
The poster features a superb illustrative map of the famous Championship Course along with the regions surrounding area. The Boat Race Poster 1926 would originally have been displayed in the railway carriages of London’s Underground trains to encourage rail travel to and from the world-renowned sporting event. The poster prominently displays the names of the nearest Underground railway stations close to the River Thames. The underground stations providing access to some of the best locations along the Thames to watch the race.
The Boat Race is an annual rowing contest that was first held in 1829. The competition has been held every year since with the exception of the war years and in 2020 & 2021 due to the Covid pandemic. In the 1920s posters were produced each year by the Underground Group to promote the event. During the 1920s crowds of up to 250,000 spectators would gather on the banks of the River Thames to watch the rowing event. The potential of a quarter of a million potential passengers travelling to and from the event by tube in a single day was too good an opportunity to miss.
Over the years many well-known poster artists including Charles Sharland, Percy Drake Brookshaw, Anna Katrina Zinkeisen, Anne Hickmott, Bernard Leslie Kearley, Kate M Burrell, Richard T Cooper and Charles Paine, each created their own versions of a Boat Race Poster.
This Stingemore Boat Race poster advertises the 1926 Boat Race that took place on March 27th, 1926. It was the 78th Bath Race between the crews from the Cambridge and Oxford Universities. The race was umpired by British rower who rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race three times.
Having won the 1925 boat race, Cambridge entered the race as reigning champions. Oxford were leading the overall race victories with 40 wins compared to Cambridge’s 36. Cambridge won the race by five lengths in a time of 19 minutes 29 seconds. It was the largest winning margin since 1912. It was also Cambridge’s third consecutive victory taking the overall record in the event to 40–37 in Oxford’s favour.
The London Boat Race Course is known as The Championship Course. It takes place over a 4 mile, 374 yards stretch of the River Thames. The University Boat Race starts at Putney on the river in South West London and is rowed upstream, timed to start on the incoming flood tide. There have been three occasions when the race have been rowed in the opposite direction. In 1846, 1856, and 1863 the race was rowed on the ebb tide, from Mortlake to Putney. The race finish is just before Chiswick Bridge and is marked by the University Boat Race Stone on the Surrey bank and a race post on the Middlesex riverside.
Our posters are carefully and professionally created from vintage originals. Whilst great care is taken in the production of these posters, we also try to maintain a vintage feel, so there may be small imperfections, fold marks, scuffs, tears, or marks that were part of the original poster master. If these do appear they should be visible on the larger views of the item on this listing. The originals of many of the posters we offer can cost many thousands of pounds, so whilst these posters look great, especially framed and mounted on a wall, they are intended as fun, affordable reproductions and not intended fine art prints.
The 50x70cm version has been specially produced to be used in conjunction with Ikea’s 50x70cm Ribba picture frame which currently retails for around £12. So you can bag a bargain of print and frame for a great price.
These digitally enhanced posters are professionally printed with fade-resistant inks onto a thick 300gsm silk poster card.
A4 posters are printed on to 300gsm silk artboard
A3, A2 and 50x70cm posters are printed on to 230gsm poster paper
All posters are despatched by 2nd class Royal Mail. Posters are posted in either a hard-backed envelope clearly marked ‘Do Not Bend’ or a sturdy postal tube.
This listing is for prints only, frames shown in any photos are not included in the sale.
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