Tenby for Sunshire and Unrivalled Golden Sands

Painting, watercolour on board, Tenby for sunshine and unrivalled golden sands, by Ronald Lampitt, 1945. Original artwork for Great Western Railway poster depicting a birds eye view of the town of Tenby and the sands of North Beach. Text below with GWR roundel logo. Signed by the artist at bottom left.

Original artwork for a Great Western Railway poster, Tenby for sunshine and unrivalled golden sands, by Ronald Lampitt, 1945.

It depicts a birds eye view of North Beach and the town of Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, south Wales. The Great Western Railway published two thousand copies of this poster in 1946, paying Lampitt £120 for his artwork.

Ronald Lampitt was born in Worcester in 1906. He was a self-taught commercial artist and illustrator, who produced artworks for John Bull magazine, The Sunday Times, Reader's Digest and other publications. He worked on children's books in collaboration with his brother-in-law, Henry Deverson and illustrated nine Ladybird books and the magazine Look and Learn.

Lampitt produced posters and carriage prints for the Great Western, Southern and London, Midland & Scottish Railways and later for British Railways. He died in 1988.