For The Center Of All Things
Antikbar, One sheet London Underground advertisement titled
"Underground For the Centre of All Things; Charing Cross", published in 1913 and designed by the American artist Joseph Pennell.
Poster Details
Artist: Joseph Pennell, a prominent etcher and lithographer. He was the President of the Senefelder Club at the time of the poster's creation, and it was produced as one of a series of autolithographs to promote the medium.
Year Published: 1913 by the Underground group.
Depiction: The artwork provides a bird's-eye view impression of the entrance to Charing Cross Underground station, with Hungerford Bridge and the River Thames visible in the background.
Context: The illustration captures a moment of technological transition in London, featuring both horse-drawn carriages and motor vehicles, steam railways above ground, and the new electric railways below. A plane is even visible in the sky, as public flying exhibitions were starting that same year.
Quotation: The text below the image is a quote from Charlotte Brontë's novel Villette:
"I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets, and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?"
"Underground For the Centre of All Things; Charing Cross", published in 1913 and designed by the American artist Joseph Pennell.
Poster Details
Artist: Joseph Pennell, a prominent etcher and lithographer. He was the President of the Senefelder Club at the time of the poster's creation, and it was produced as one of a series of autolithographs to promote the medium.
Year Published: 1913 by the Underground group.
Depiction: The artwork provides a bird's-eye view impression of the entrance to Charing Cross Underground station, with Hungerford Bridge and the River Thames visible in the background.
Context: The illustration captures a moment of technological transition in London, featuring both horse-drawn carriages and motor vehicles, steam railways above ground, and the new electric railways below. A plane is even visible in the sky, as public flying exhibitions were starting that same year.
Quotation: The text below the image is a quote from Charlotte Brontë's novel Villette:
"I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets, and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?"
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