Carlisle - The Gateway to Scotland

Painting, oil on canvas, poster artwork for London, Midland & Scottish Railway, 'Carlisle, The Gateway to Scotland', by Maurice Greiffenhagen, 1924. Depicts a knight in armour riding a white horse. The knight holds a flag bearing the cross of St George, and the horse carries a red caparison, decorated with the coat of arms used by Carlisle between 1885 and 1924. Behind the knight is a gate in the city walls, with a road beyond leading to mountains in the distance visible through the gateway. To the left of the horse is Carlisle's coat of arms. One of a series of works commissioned by the LMS from 16 Royal Academy artists in 1924. Framed and glazed, perspex.