Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly - London Underground Poster - Zoo Chalk Hill Camden Town 1927 AP1548

A spectacular print, newly restored and mounted on linen. Age has darkened the poster but it is otherwise in excellent and completely stable condition. Truly an iconic work. Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly (English, 1896-1971) published by Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited Title: Zoo: Common and Spiny Lobster Origin: England Date: 1927 Medium: Color lithograph on cream wove paper Dimensions: 1013 × 635 mm (sheet) ... 24" x 40". Mounted on 27" x 42" linen. Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly (1896–1971), MBE, MC, RI, known to friends and colleagues as 'TK', was a British army officer, school teacher, and artist, known especially for his watercolor paintings of ornithological subjects. Early life Talbot Kelly was born in Birkenhead, then in Cheshire, England, on 20 August 1896. He was the only son of Lilias Fisher Kelly and Robert Talbot Kelly. His father was also a successful artist, as was his paternal grandfather, the Irish landscape and portrait painter, Robert