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Run away to sea by P&O-Orient Lines

AC/04079/00

Object category: POSTER

Date made: 1961-1964

Maker: HOLLYMAN, Tom

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Material/medium: Offset lithograph printed on paper, laid on board

Dimensions:

  • sight: 99.7 x 61.6 cm; outside frame: 102 x 64 cm

This poster was part of a campaign created originally in 1958 by David Ogilvy (later Ogilvy & Mather) for the Orient Line and later revived to advertise P&O-Orient Lines and P&O Worldwide services. The young boy was four-year-old Anthony Ashbolt of Sydney and P&O Officer, Roy Cookman photographed by Tom Hollyman on board ORSOVA.