Scarborough, LNER

Advertising poster for the London & North Eastern Railway promoting Scarborough.
The artist, William Henry Barribal (1873–1956), trained in lithography in London and furthered his artistic studies in Paris. He produced a series of recruitment posters during the First World War. In the 1920s and 1930s, Barribal worked for a number of commercial clients, including Schweppes, Waddington’s, Vogue magazine and LNER. His wife, Gertrude Louisa Fannie Pitt, became the artist’s principal female model.

Object Details

ID: ZBA1768
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Tripp, Herbert Alker; Jordison & Co., Ltd Barribal, William H John Waddington Ltd
Date made: 1930; 1945
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: : 1070 x 1840 mm