Posters

This page represents most of our collection of original Antique and Vintage Posters. Please click on an image to see it in high-resolution, with details of the work itself.  For enquiries and purchases, please do contact us.

Paquebot ‘Antilles’: Cross-section of the French cruise ship operating in the tropics for the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
Depassera vos esperances: Promotional poster with ‘Fish Eye’ photo of the city.
Imperial Airways: Ensign Air Liner. For Empire Services. Promotional poster illustrated with cross sections of the Flying Boat being built by Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd.
Thailand: Land of Beauty and Romance. Stylised image of Wat Arun and a Golden Royal Dragon Boat. Printed by Kana Chang Bangkok.
Chamonix-Martigny Par les Gorges du Trient: (Paris-Lyon-Mediterannee Railways) promotional poster for the line through the Trient Gorge.
Britannic Cunard: Liverpool Route to USA and Canada. Turner produced a number of designs for the Cunard Line and Transport for London.
Promotional poster with a Koala or Native Bear. After the Anglo-Antipodean artist Eileen Mayo.
Europe: Travel poster advertising Air France services to Europe with tourist destinations.
Racehorses flat out to the finish: From one of the leading American lithographic and engraving establishments.
Chamonix: Le Plus Haut Telefrique du Monde, Francaise des Chemins de Fer de Montagne promotional poster for the first Aiguille du Midi-Mont-Blanc cable car in assoctian with PLM (Paris-Lyon-Mediterannee Railways). By Henri Dormoy.
Continental Record Tyres advertisement by the German Poster artist Jupp Weirtz.
La Route des Alpes: Art Deco promotional poster for an early bus service from Nice to the French Alps by PLM (Paris-Lyon-Mediterannee Railways).
Lebanon: Travel poster published by the Conseil National du Tourisme au Liban to promote Lebanon as a tourist destination. The photograph is credited to ‘Fattal’, possibly the Lebanese artist Simone Fattal. Printed by the prestigious Draeger firm in Paris.
Delhi: Indian State Railways. View of a part of the Lal Qila (Red Fort). Published in Bombay.
Malay States: The Golden Chersonese. Rare transport poster promoting the Malay State Railway. Designed by Hugh Murton Le Fleming.
Air France promotional poster: Double hemisphere map of the world highlighting air routes and surrounded with illustrations of European explorers in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. By Lucien Boucher.
La Cote dAzur: Promtional panoramic map of the South coast of France from Menton to Toulon.
Extreme Orient:: Promotional poster for Air France’s routes to South America. By Lucien Boucher.
L’Amrique du Nord: Poster map of North America promoting Air France, and its partnership with multiple American regional airlines.
Royal Mail Promotional poster for the Atlantis (the redeployed Andes after its service in WWI). Shoesmith was a naval cadet, later working on the Royal Mail line before becoming a successful marine artist.
Lucknow: City of Gardens. Newsome and fellow artist Kathleen Nixon were commissioned by the Oxford University Press to visit India following which the Indian State Railways commissioned a series of posters. Printed in Calcutta.
Der Mench als Industriepalast (Man as an Industrial Palace): The human body represented as a machine with part represented by a mechanical equivalent.
Imperial Airways: The Greatest Air Service in the World. Promotional poster illustrated with cross sections of the most innovative aeroplanes of the time – Scipio Class Flying-Boats, Atlanta Class, Scylla Class, Heracles and Hannibal.
London Transport: The Londoner’s Transport Throughout the Ages. Quad Royal poster showing the development in the means of travel Overground & Underground.
India: Fly to India. Promotional poster for B.O.A.C in association with Quantas Empire, South African and Tasman Airways.
Barcelona: La Capital del Mediterraneo. Art Deco poster of a biplane decorated with the Spanish flag passing Gaudi’s famous church La Sagrada Familia.
Baleares: Promotional poster advertising Air France’s flights to the Balearics by Lucien Boucher.
World map satirising President Reagan’s Cold War worldview in the late 1980s.
Calcutta: East Indian Railway. Promotional poster showing the Burmese pagoda in Eden Gardens. By Desmond Doig.
Columbia Tobacco: David Dunlop’s advertisement for the World’s Fair in Chicago 1893.
Savoie: PLM (Paris-Lyon-Mediterannee Railways) promotional poster for Savoie department in the French Alps
Amerique du Nord: Vintage postcard promoting Air France’s routes in North America. By Guy Arnoux.
Cambodia. Vintage travel poster published by the Office de Tourisme Indochinois to promote tourism to Cambodia. Printed in Hanoi by D’Extreme Orient.
India: Promotional poster for Mount Abu and Lake Nakki, Rajasthan. Issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Printed in Madras.
Cuba: Met Rosanna naar Havana. Promotional poster for Martinair and group Cubanacan. By Sylvan Steenbrink.
Proche-Orient: Vintage postcard promoting Air France’s routes to the Near East. By Eric Castel.
P & Cruises Passenger Services Cover Half of the World: Promotional poster for Peninsular and Oriental cruises with a map of Southeast Asia and Australia.
Nova et Vetera: Air France promotional map poster centred on Africa, Asia, and Europe with Air France’s routes overlaid in red and highlighted with gold.
Extreme Orient:: Promotional poster for Air France’s routes in French Indochina. By Lucien Boucher.
Les Animaux a Fourrures dans le Monde: Unusual pictorial world map showing the world’s fur-bearing animals. By Lucien Boucher for Maison Simon Freres furriers.
London Underground: From the Ark to Regent’s Park. Poster showing the animals of Noah’s ark travelling by Underground from Mt Ararat to their new homes at London Zoo in Regent’s Park. By Arnrid Johnston.
Crociera Aerea Transatlantica: Celebrating the 1930 Transatlantic Air Cruise from Rome to Rio de Janeiro of a fleet of 12 Italian seaplanes led by the head of Fascist Italy’s Air Force, Italo Balbo.