Cunard's interwar posters sold the Atlantic crossing as spectacle. Artists like Walter Thomas and C.E. Turner tilted the liner's bow up at a heroic low angle, four funnels banded vermilion and black, riding a field of deep marine-blue night. Gold-cream Deco capitals stacked above, lithographically flat and unapologetically monumental. Speed, scale and first-class luxury were the message — the ship was the hero, the sea its stage.