£120
Travel Poster Bombay India Agricultural Show Ahmedabad. Original vintage advertising poster for the Bombay Presidency Agricultural Show in Ahmedabad 17-28 November. The Bombay Presidency, also known as Bombay and Sind from 1843 to 1936 and the Bombay Province, was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. Headquartered in the city of Bombay, at its greatest extent, the presidency included the Konkan, Nashik and Pune divisions of the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, Ahmedabad, Anand, Bharuch, Gandhinagar, Kheda, Panchmahal and Surat districts of the present-day state of Gujarat, Bagalkot, Belagavi, Bijapur, Dharwad, Gadag, and Uttara Kannada districts of the present-day state of Karnataka and the South Canara (Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district including Kasargod District of Kerala; the Sindh province of present-day Pakistan; the Aden Colony (part of present-day Yemen), and the Khuriya Muriya Islands (part of present-day Oman). The design features a lady wearing a traditional sari dress and carrying a basket filled with cotton on her head in front of workers picking the cotton in a field and an image below the stylised title text in blue and red letters showing men wearing turbans ploughing the soil in a field with oxen. Printed in India by Times Press, Bombay. Very good condition, restored loss and faint foxing on bottom margin, backed on linen. Country: India, year: 1928, artist: Slade, size(cm): 77x50.5.
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