R.S. Pike, S.S. Leviathan / United States Lines. Circa 1925.
R.S. Pike
Dates Unknown
S.S. Leviathan / United States Lines. Circa 1925.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges, one slightly into text; small replaced loss in upper right corner and lower image; creases and minor abrasions in image and along vertical and horizontal folds. Matted and framed.
Pike illustrated at least three other posters depicting the Leviathan for the United States Lines, each from a unique perspective - one with a birds-eye view of the decks, a cropped closeup of the side, from water level, and one in the background of a passenger boarding another ship.
The Leviathan was originally a German ship named the Vaterland that was seized by the United States during World War I and renamed. In 1923, the United States Shipping Board transferred the ship over to the United States Lines. Though not in fact "The largest ship in the world," (she was second to White Star's Majestic), the ship was a headline-maker and considered to be one of the best-known liners in the western world.
This is the English version, without overprinting at bottom. It was also printed with German text.
38½x23¼ inches, 97¾x59 cm. Dorland, [Paris].
R.S. Pike
Dates Unknown
S.S. Leviathan / United States Lines. Circa 1925.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges, one slightly into text; small replaced loss in upper right corner and lower image; creases and minor abrasions in image and along vertical and horizontal folds. Matted and framed.
Pike illustrated at least three other posters depicting the Leviathan for the United States Lines, each from a unique perspective - one with a birds-eye view of the decks, a cropped closeup of the side, from water level, and one in the background of a passenger boarding another ship.
The Leviathan was originally a German ship named the Vaterland that was seized by the United States during World War I and renamed. In 1923, the United States Shipping Board transferred the ship over to the United States Lines. Though not in fact "The largest ship in the world," (she was second to White Star's Majestic), the ship was a headline-maker and considered to be one of the best-known liners in the western world.
This is the English version, without overprinting at bottom. It was also printed with German text.
38½x23¼ inches, 97¾x59 cm. Dorland, [Paris].
