Antikbar Original Vintage Posters
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Original vintage travel poster by London Transport - The Tower is London's greatest (and grimmest) show-place. Since the Conquest it has been fortress, palace, mint, treasury, observatory and even royal menagerie. It has also provided rough hospitality for a host of reluctant guests, some long-term, others merely breaking the sad journey to the block and axe... Here are a mixed dozen. Historians and regular visitors to the National Portrait Gallery may like to try to identify them. The rest of us will have to read the small type. - the poster features a colourful stylised illustration of the Tower with the Union Jack flag flying above, a crow between the trees set over a pink and orange striped background, and images of Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Anne Boleyn, Sir Walter Raleigh, Archbishop Laud, James Scott Duke of Monmouth, Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, Earl of Strafford, Simon Fraser Lord Lovat, Judge Jeffreys, Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex, Sir Thomas More. Very good condition, creasing. Country of issue: UK, designer: Hans Unger, size (cm): 102x64, year of printing: 1968.
