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Lake Geneva – get there with the Jura-Simplon Railway

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Creator Hugo d'Alési
Printing year 1897
Sheet size (cm) 106×74
Printing technique Lithograph
Printer Félix Hermet, Paris
Condition A-
Asking price 2'400 CHF
Categories on the tracks | by cable car, Romandy, Switzerland

Very elaborately printed original poster by the French Hugo d’Alési, who was also active in Switzerland – at the end of the 19th century Swiss clients had almost no choice but to look abroad as there were hardly any local artists with experience in poster design.

The Jura-Simplon railway company, for its part, was nationalized in 1903 as the largest Swiss railway company at the time and integrated into the newly founded SBB.