Object Details
- Description
- Outside a dark circle, the numbers 10 and 4, at their places as though on a clock face. A dividing line bisects diagonally within from 10 to 4. Inside the circle, two scenes, one above the dividing line of the interior of a train car with only two seated figures; one below showing a crowded train scene. In both versions, the figures carry packages. Figures are shown in graphic color blocking (gray, black, red, ochre, and peach) Below, in capital letters: “Shop between Ten & Four / The Quiet Hours.” Below, the logo for the London Underground. Around the perimeter, black framing lines.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Annie Gertrude Fletcher, British, 1896–1942
- Printer
- Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leeds and London, England
- Client
- Underground Electric Railways Company of London, Ltd., London, England, United Kingdom
- Date
- 1926
- Credit Line
- Gift of Merrill C. Berman
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 98.7 × 63 cm (38 7/8 × 24 13/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
