Author: 1893 LONDON - RAMSGATE - MARGATE - General Steam Navigation Company - JAPONISME :
Title: POSTER. General Steam Navigation Company . Whitsun Holidays 1893.
Description: London, General Steam Navigation Company, May 1893, poster printed on pre-imprinted japanese crêpe paper, illustrated with coloured woodcuts, 43 x 34 cm. (small hole in the image - ca. 1 cm² - with minor image interference ; some foxing spots mainly at the lower right quarter of the poster). Rare specimen of a British publicity poster printed on pre-imprinted japanese paper. The poster announces the scedule for the Whitsun Holidays ship excusrsions of the General Steam Navigation Company. This shipping company, based in London organised excursions to Hamburg in Germany, to Margate, Ramsgate, Deal , Dover and Yarmouth.. .

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