{"product_id":"indian-state-railways-muttra-krishna-temple-1928-roger-broders-vintage-poster-print","title":"Indian State Railways. Muttra, Krishna temple · 1928 · Roger Broders - Vintage Poster Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndian State Railways. Muttra, Krishna temple\u003c\/strong\u003e - an original poster by Roger Broders, 1928, advertising Mathura.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMathura, on the Yamuna in what is now Uttar Pradesh, is held to be the birthplace of Krishna and has been a place of pilgrimage for well over two thousand years. Its ghats and temple towers were a fixture of the Indian State Railways' campaign to sell the subcontinent to European travellers between the wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Indian State Railways commissioned European poster artists in the late 1920s to sell the subcontinent as a destination rather than a posting - a campaign that sent designers better known for the Alps and the Riviera to render temple towns and hill stations in exactly the same flat, confident Art Deco manner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoger Broders worked almost exclusively for the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway between 1922 and 1932, producing around a hundred posters that did more than any other campaign to sell the Alps and the Côte d'Azur to French holidaymakers. His style is unmistakable: flat planes of unmodelled colour, landscape reduced to a few bold geometric masses, and a single elegantly dressed figure placed small against the view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRestored from a high-resolution scan of an original lithograph, with the scanning marks and mount board removed so that only the poster itself is printed. Printed to order on cotton-fibre archival paper, with optional mounting and hand-finished framing in our own workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Grand Tour","offers":[{"title":"8\" x 12\"","offer_id":55039285920085,"sku":"THEGRANDTOUR010-I-8X12","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"12\" x 18\"","offer_id":55039285952853,"sku":"THEGRANDTOUR010-I-12X18","price":33.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"16\" x 24\"","offer_id":55039285985621,"sku":"THEGRANDTOUR010-I-16X24","price":41.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 36\"","offer_id":55039286051157,"sku":"THEGRANDTOUR010-I-24X36","price":49.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"20cm x 30cm","offer_id":55039286083925,"sku":"THEGRANDTOUR010-M-20X30","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"30cm x 45cm","offer_id":55039286116693,"sku":"THEGRANDTOUR010-M-30X45","price":33.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"40cm x 60cm","offer_id":55039286149461,"sku":"THEGRANDTOUR010-M-40X60","price":41.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"60cm x 90cm","offer_id":55039286182229,"sku":"THEGRANDTOUR010-M-60X90","price":49.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_a8bdd06b-2fb7-45de-ada9-f152ef5449d5.jpg?v=1789745885","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/en-intl\/products\/indian-state-railways-muttra-krishna-temple-1928-roger-broders-vintage-poster-print","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}