Lot 185: TRAVEL POSTER TUNBRIDGE WELLS BRITISH LONDON TRANSPORT UNDERGROUND

Original vintage travel poster published by London Transport: Tunbridge Wells. Stylised artwork by Scottish artist Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie (1868-1938), showing a view of Tunbridge Wells with the church's tower and the domes of the Opera House emerging from behind the green trees and bubbles depicted in the foreground. Printed in Great Britain by Jarrold & Sons Ltd. Alick Ritchie was born in Dundee, Scotland. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Antwerp before settling in London as a commercial artist. He produced many cartoons for Vanity Fair, the Sketch, the Bystander and many other magazines and journals. Ritchie's cartoons and caricatures included portraits of celebrities in a style satirising the Cubist and Futurist schools of art that were predominant at the time. In 1912, he published a book called Y? or Zoo-all-awry, consisting of drawings and rhymes of composite animals, such as the Octopussy Cat and the Porcupython. Ritchie became well known for his theatrical posters, and between the wars he also produced posters for the London Underground. Poor condition, laminated and backed on board, small stains and marks, small tears in margins. Country: UK, year of printing: 1931, designer: Alick P. F. Richie, size (cm): 100.5x62.5