Antwerp, world port and city of art--A centre for tourists / De Roeck. – Vintage Wall Art
![Antwerp, world port and city of art--A centre for tourists / De Roeck., Antwerpen : Litho. Fr. De Smet, [1934] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0a/0a8af505f208-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This 1934 color poster presents Antwerp in two roles at once, as a working world port and as a city of art, and its title pairs those themes deliberately. It was lithographed in Antwerp by Fr. De Smet and credits De Roeck, the designer named in its title, as one of the Belgian travel posters of the 1930s meant to draw visitors to the country's cities. The art theme recalls Peter Paul Rubens, who worked in Antwerp, while the port reflects the Scheldt traffic that made the city a major commercial center for centuries. The poster shows how interwar tourism advertising presented a city as both modern and historic.
| Created / published | Antwerpen : Litho. Fr. De Smet, [1934] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Travel posters Belgian 1930-1940.Prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: Bel. E8. 1934. |
| Subjects | Tourism--Belgium--Antwerp--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,142 × 1,449 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216424 |
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