12inch x 18inch Poster A poster produced by the Empire Marketing Board, an organisation which operated between 1926 and 1933 to promote goods from the British Empire, depicts the River Mersey busy with shipping. As well as being a major port, Liverpool was also the first point of entry for many Irish migrants to England. Charles Edward Dixon (8 December 1872 - 12 September 1934) was a British maritime painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose work was highly successful and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. There is a border around the image. The image size is correct.