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Description: | London Transport published this poster in 1936. It was designed by the prolific British artist Graham Sutherland to promote leisure travel.
Sutherland's modern approach touched upon surrealism and bordered on abstraction. However, he was also greatly influenced by the pastoral visions expressed a century earlier in the art and writing of William Blake.
The title of this poster is taken from the poem How Sweet I Roam'd from Field to Field, which was written by Blake in 1783. Sutherland produced another poster that year entitled From Field to Field; the two could be displayed side by side. The images represent the lines:
How sweet I roam'd from field to field,
And tasted all the summer's pride,
Till I the prince of love beheld,
Who in the sunny beams did glide! | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Leisure Transport Art and Design | Temporal: | 1936 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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