Cornwall Harbour Vintage Railway Poster- Leonard Richmond – 1937
£3.99 – £14.00
Cornwall Harbour Vintage Railway Poster- Leonard Richmond – 1937
The original of this Cornwall travel poster was created by Leonard Richmond for the Great Western Railway circa 1946. The scene features the South Pier Head Lighthouse on the South Pier in Penzance. On the pier are a couple of fishermen are talking, below them, the harbour is full of fishing boats, sailing boats, and dingys. Richmond then seems to take artistic license and switches the view from theSouth Pier that looks out towards St Michaels Mount and instead appears to use the view from Newlyn Pier that looks out over the green rolling hills towards Mousehole. Nevertheless, this is a great image and one that helps to attract visitors to the Cornwall area for the Great Western Railway.
Cornwall was a railway destination that featured heavily in both Great Western Railways and British Railways poster output and many famous and less-well-known artists have created posters to get tourists to make the journey there by train. Artists such as Gyrth Russell, Jack Merriot, Arthur Wilcox, Alker Tripp, and Leonard Cusden to name but a few.
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.
Description
These digitally enhanced posters are professionally printed with fade resistant inks on to 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.