Boomhauer

Like this:

Was it done in watercolour? Is there a name for this style ?

yellowroom

The first example isn't Victorian, it's a classic british railway poster influenced by art deco - first half of the 20th Century, peak was between the wars. Google images will show you tons. I rather like them.

Second example - I have no idea as to style, but Tariff Reform/Free Trade was a hot topic at the turn of the 19/20th Century, so again, not really Victorian as such.

Rete

Looks like a lithograph. These are often seen on Antique Roadshow.

robin1234

1906, the Tariff Reform poster is, apparently.

The Rise of Election Campaigns in Britain, 1892-1931 | POLITICS THROUGH TIME

That railway poster is beautiful. National Railway Museum has many of them available, as postcards and posters...

Boomhauer

I used to have several reproduction postcards of early 1900s ,and maybee also a bit earlier, British railways. GWR and others ; bought them in a Train and Transport enthusiast magazine shop somewhere in central London in 1995 or 1996.

So Victorian era postcards and posters all employed realism and or romanticism?

Nutmegger

I have the "Yorkshire Moors by LNER" poster seen on this page hanging in my office.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/228205906090564269/

The artist is Tom Purvis, who did a lot of these commercial paintings in the thirties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Purvis

Steerpike

Probably copycats of the style:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/549791066985551336/

Pinterest is one of my pet peeves as they force registration, but this page seems to display ok ...

Pulaski

The era cited is Edwardian, and Googling <Edwardian Posters> finds the poster of the ships in post #1 above as about the twentieth image.

Boomhauer

I googled Victorian era posters / postcard and got those 2.

So actual Victorian era artwork style is Romanticism and Realism?

Like the below?
https://www.google.com/search?q=engl...&bih=884&dpr=1

WEBlue

Though I haven't studied art in any depth, I would say yes to this question. When I think of Victorian art, I always envision my favourite art clique, the Pre-Raphaelites. Their subjects tended towards the deeply emotional, bordering on pure sentimentality, yet were redeemed by the vivid realistic detailing. Rich and interesting, yes...but quite different from the examples in your first post.

Actually, Victoria ruled for so many years that it's very difficult to sum up all the many art styles that evolved during her era into just a few adjectives....

Bob

I used to work with a chap who did architectural silk screen printed posters in the style of the first pic. A lot of stuff around New England, RI/MA/CT mostly.

Leslie

I love this thread.

Foreign Affairs uses this style on some of their covers. This month (volume 96) is reminiscent.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/issues/2017/96/3

Pulaski

The New Yorker does too.

Nutmegger

This library of 1930s railway posters is cited on Tom Purvis's wiki page, in case anyone didn't spot it, giving the dates when many of the works were published:

https://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/...s1=Purvis,+Tom

And here are his Austin Reed ads, where his very art deco feel really comes across -- the ads bring to mind Fred Astaire or Noel Coward:

TOM PURVIS: VINTAGE AUSTIN REED POSTERS | HOUSE OF RETRO

Boomhauer

True , Victorian era runs long, and even includes Picasso modernist work but there is a classical quintessential Victorian design that comes to mind, like below:

1856 lithographic print of Llandudno


1851 The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace .