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Original vintage travel map for Eastern Bohemia / Vychodni Cechy featuring route lines through the area linking cities and towns with illustrations ...

Original vintage SNCF French National Railways travel poster - Visitez la France Cote d'Azur Prenez nos trains et nos autocars Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais / Visit F...

Original vintage Czechoslovak propaganda poster - Za Vlast Za Socialism! / For Motherland For Socialism - featuring dynamic artwork of a soldier in uniform and armed with a rifle gun...

Original vintage travel advertising poster issued by BEA - Lineas Aereas Britanicas - featuring a stunning design showing a plane flying from Madrid in Spain to Londres / London in E...

Original vintage travel advertising for Birmingham, an English city located in the West Midlands. Dynamic image of a factory reflected on the water with smoke billowing against the b...

Original vintage travel poster - Visitez L'URSS en Auto! / Visit the USSR by Car - issued by the Soviet state travel agency Intourist featuring a photomontage design depicting two pe...

Delicate Cowparsley by Charlie Davies is a limited edition print made using real flowers and fauna from nature to make the etching plate. Part of the printmaking process that Charlie...

On the Road, reimagines classic Richard Heeps artworks presented with full film rebate almost like a blown up contact sheet. This Googie sign photograph captures the iconic and memor...

This charming mid-19th-century hand-coloured lithograph depicts the ‘Enterprise Steam Omnibus’, the most successful steam carriage of its period. In the early 19th century, long-distance travel was predominantly undertaken by horse-drawn carriages. Yet, every so often, the clitter-clatter of hooves was abruptly overshadowed by the whir of steam-powered technology. From around 1801, several plucky inventors began developing carriages which could propel themselves via steam. The majority were notoriously unreliable, often breaking down, too slow to be practical, and occasionally exploding. The first steam-powered carriage, invented by Richard Trevithick of Cornwall, made its debut in 1801. It was known as ‘The Puffing Devil’ or ‘Captain Dick’s Puffer’ and said to cause quite a fright when trundling towards you. But this, like several others, couldn’t sustain the rigours of regular long distance trips, which were required to support the cost of running them. Walter Hancock’s (1799-1852) carriages were different. They became the first to run regularly - initially from Stratford and London via the ‘Infant’, a ten-seater bus, and in 1833, between London Wall and Paddington via ‘The Enterprise’, which we see here. Hancock’s machines were revolutionary due to his patented steam boiler (which had less risk of exploding). The Enterprise also had a pioneering suspended engine along with several other clever additions. Driving it was a tricky affair with three operators required - one to steer and control the speed, a second to monitor the boiler’s water level, and a third to maintain the fire. It’s unclear how the three communicated over the omnipresent din. In total, Hancock’s machines carried 12,761 passengers across 4,200 miles, an incredible achievement given the constraints of the day and the condition of the roads. The Enterprise was lauded in Europe and the US, with this particular image featuring in the New York press. The lithograph is based upon an earlier engraving...

Kopemanga, 2016. Linoleum block print on paper. A/P Elia Shiwoohamba was born in 1981 in Windhoek, Namibia. He graduated from the John Muafangejo Art Centre in Windhoek in 2006. Spe...

Untitled is a print realized by Giuseppe Capogrossi (Rome, 1900 - 1972). Lithograph on paper Hand-signed lower right, numbered, edition lower left, 56/80 prints. Embossing stamp of...

Original Vintage Poster depicting Piero Luigi Nervi's International Labor Exposition Hall in Turin, published 1962 by the magazine Architectural Forum to p...