Visit India - Ellora

Made:
circa 1930
artist:
William Spencer Bagdatopoulos
publisher:
Indian Railways

Poster, Indian State Railways, Visit India, Ellora by William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (Bylityilis), about 1930. Coloured lithograph depicting the caves at Ellora in Maharashtra state. The poster shows a colossal statue of an elephant in front of the Kailasanatha Temple with the vertical face of the Charanandri hills in the background. Pilgrims, including a man and a boy in turbans, and a woman covering her head with a sari, stand in the foreground. Text above and below the illustration, with a large yellow diamond in the bottom right corner for the insertion of overprinted text, with the words "The Times of India Press" below. Format double royal. Linen backed.

Details

Category:
Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills
Object Number:
1988-8042
Materials:
paper
type:
poster
credit:
Sotheby's (New Bond St)