Devon

Poster, Great Western Railway, Devon by Ronald Lampitt, 1936. Coloured lithograph depicting red cliffs, a beach and the sea, overlooked by houses at a cliff's edge. The painting is in a mosaic style, made up of different coloured rectangles. At bottom left and right is the GWR roundel. One of a series of three posters in this style by Lampitt, the others advertising Devon and The Cotswold Country. Text at bottom margin reads "Paddington Station, London, W2 106; Printed in Great Britain Litho J Weiner Limited, London, W.C.1; James Milne - General Manager." Format: quad royal. Dimensions: 40 x 50 inches, 1016 x 1270mm.

Great Western Railway poster, Devon, by Ronald Lampitt, 1936.

This is one of three posters that Lampitt completed in this 'mosaic' style for the Great Western Railway in 1936. The others featured Devon and the Cotswold Country. Lampitt was paid £181 9s 2d (£181.47) for this one. 1200 copies were printed in this quadroyal landscape format by the London firm of J Weiner.

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.