Painterly-looking stylized print featuring, in the center, a large tree with branches stretched upwards into clusters of green leaves; creating a solid green area at the top with large, white, all caps, serif text: 'OXHEY WOODS' layered on top fitted across the width. The bark of the tree is a dark gray/almost black with long solid brush-like strokes with shades of beige to brown layered on top, appearing like tiles following the curvature of the trunk and branches. Below the tree an organic cloud-like shadow in a deep green on top of the lighter green grass and a blue on a yellow road; begins in the left corner foreground and curves diagonally to the right and upwards and bends around the right of the tree. The winding road continues into the background and cuts through a group of a variety of smaller-scaled, less detailed trees. The lower left-hand corner is scattered with various toadstools.

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Object Timeline

1915	Work on this object began.
1963	We acquired this object.
2013	We photographed this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
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Poster, Oxhey Woods

This is a Poster. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and printed by Waterlow & Sons, Ltd. and made for (as the client) Underground Electric Railways of London Company Ltd.. It is dated 1915 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer. It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.

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Its dimensions are

75.9 × 50.5 cm (29 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.)

It is signed

Printed in script, in black ink, lower right: E.McKNIGHT / KAUFFER / -15.

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, lower left: 154 1500 6-4 15; lower center: WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED PRINTERS DUNSTABLE & LONDON; lower right: ELECTRIC RAILWAY HOUSE, BROADWAY, WESTMINSTER, S.W.

Cite this object as

Poster, Oxhey Woods; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Printed by Waterlow & Sons, Ltd.; Client: Underground Electric Railways of London Company Ltd.; England; offset lithograph on paper, lined; 75.9 × 50.5 cm (29 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-13

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CxJ6/
Accession Number 1963-39-13
Object ID 18447253