Vintage Art Print from the UK

Royal Mail Line Cruises to Norway Colour Print

SIZE OF POSTER PRINT - 12 X 18 INCHES

DATE OF ORIGINAL PRINT, POSTER OR ADVERT - 1927

BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL TRAVEL POSTER FOR ROYAL MAIL LINES CRUISES TO NORWAY! COLORFUL ART DECO ILLUSTRATION BY FREDA BEARD!

ARTIST: Freda Beard was a portrait painter and commercial artist. In 1928 she designed the cover for Pall Mall magazine. In 1924 she designed a poster for the British Empire Exhibition and in 1925 another for the Royal Mail Line. She exhibited twice at the Royal Academy.

It is probable that Freda Beard also signed her work F B.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen. The line's motto was Per Mare Ubique (everywhere by sea). After a troubled start, it became the largest shipping group in the world in 1927 when it took over the White Star Line. The company was liquidated and its assets taken over by the newly formed Royal Mail Lines in 1932 after financial trouble and scandal; over the years RML declined to no more than the name of a service run by former rival Hamburg Süd.