About this artwork
Although he was a recent art school graduate, Edward Bawden had already developed a mature calligraphic style by the time he created this Underground poster. He wittily re-creates the excitement of the many monumental display cases in the ornithological (bird) galleries of the Natural History Museum. Specimens include a tall ostrich with its gigantic egg, a king penguin grasping a fish in its beak, and, at top, an extinct dodo bird. The diverse feathered creatures fascinate the small figures of an adult and child at the right of the image.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Edward Bawden
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Title
- Natural History Museum
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Place
- England (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1925
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Medium
- Color lithograph on cream wove paper
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Dimensions
- 76.1 × 50.7 cm (30 × 20 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited
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Reference Number
- 1925.1596
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