Poster; Houses of Parliament, unknown, 1927

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Reference number	1983/4/2351
Artist	unknown
Dates	1927
Collection	Posters
Object type	Poster
Print code	1300.1000.20.8.27
Location	Acton Depot
Topics	Houses of Parliament Painting Royal buildings & palaces
Completeness	83% 83% ?

• Physical description

  Dimensions

  Attribute	Value
  Height	1016mm
  Width	635mm
  Descriptive size	Double royal

  Item content

  Attribute	Value
  Object title	Houses of Parliament
  Text	HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT (ST. STEPHEN'S HALL) Eight New Mural Paintings Now on View Saturdays & Bank Holidays 10 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. Admission Free...King Alfred's long ships attack the Danish Invaders, stormbound in Swanage Bay, 877...King Richard I leaves England to join the crusade in Palestine for the recovery of Jerusalem from the Saracens, 1189...King John gives unwilling assent to Magna Charta as the foundation of justice and individual freedom in England, 1215...English people secretly reading aloud Wycliffe's English version of the Bible, 1500...Sir Thomas More refuses to grant Henry VIII a subsidy without debate, 1523...Queen Elizabeth commissions Sir Walter Raleigh to sail for America, and seek new countries, 1584...Sir Thomas Roe, Envoy from King James I of England at the Moghul Court, 1614...BOOK TO WESTMINSTER STN. UNDERGROUND

• People involved

  Role	Person(s) involved
  Artist	Unknown, 1927
  Printer	Swaingravure,
  Publisher	Underground Electric Railway Company Ltd, 1927