- Title:
- London Parks: Autumn Leaves
- Date:
- 1961
- Materials & Techniques:
- Lithograph
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 40 x 25 inches (101.6 x 63.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
In black, handwritten, left edge of poster, top: "John Burningham '61". In black, beneath image: "POMIFER AUTUMNUS, with the redbreast whistling and every, | common bush afire...Who's for a stroll? Take your hand, | preyhound, mongrel, spaniel, cur, shough, water-rug or demi-wolf | for a last long look at the sun. Try a different park each week." In gray ink, along bottom edge of poster, right: "WATERLONG SONS LIMITED LONDON AND DUNSTABLE"; left: "461| 313F| 2700."
Lettered, lower center: "POMIFER AUTUMNUS, with the redbreast whistling and every common bush afire… Who's for a stroll? Take your hound, greyhound, mongrel, cur, slough, water rug or demi-wolf for a last long look at the sun. Try a different park each week."
In black, handwritten, left edge of poster, top: "John Burningham '61".
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965
- Copyright Status:
- © TfL
- Accession Number:
- B1993.3.2
- Classification:
- Posters
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4047
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John Burningham, 1936–2019, British, London Parks: Autumn Leaves, 1961
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