Can you locate this picture by Stanley Badmin?

By Alex Richards on January 17th 2011

This piece was almost definitely commissioned as a travel poster for the Southwest, though its location is unknown and may be a combination of a real place and the artists imagination.

Stanley Roy Badmin was known for his detailed watercolours, though it was his book illustrations that brought him to a wider audience, and in the later years of his career that he was asked regularly to produce travel posters for clients such as London Transport and British Railways. 

This poster is likely to be one such commission.

Stanley Roy Badmin (1906 - 1989)

The South West

£18,750

22" x 16.5"

To be exhibited at the Watercolours + Works on Paper Fair 2011 by Kaye Michie

Can you identify the location of this picture? If it looks familiar, we would love to know your thoughts.

Members Comments

• Comment by: coastalwalker61 09 February 2011 - 17:23

  Hello
  i am sure i have recently walked to this location from pentewan, I think it is the veiw from the top of the hill looking down into mevagissey, with his own imagination added to the picture

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• Comment by: jin 10 February 2011 - 15:52

  This looks like Coverack to me - with some use of the imagination in the left / background.

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• Comment by: AlexEC 31 March 2011 - 14:43

  I too, think it's Mevagissey with a bit of artistic licence. You can see/imagine the double harbour.

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• Comment by: robin 14 April 2011 - 13:45

  This looks rather like Mevagissey.

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• Comment by: pendriffey 30 April 2011 - 12:40

  looks like Polperro to me

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• Comment by: coastalwalker61 01 May 2011 - 09:41

  looking at it more closely and as the person says it could well be polperro

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• Comment by: cherrykasi 07 February 2012 - 13:47

  hi
  it reminds me of clovelly

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