Gill’s Smaller London Underground Map
SKU: 8190
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Gill’s Smaller London Underground Map
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MacDonald Gill, brother of Eric, was a successful commercial artist in his own right, and a noted calligrapher who designed the font used on all headstones by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
In the 1920s and 1930s London Underground favoured named designers over the anonymous draughtsmen who had created their earlier maps. Gill stripped away the remaining surface topography, including the Thames; although his calligraphy has a leisurely feel to it, he created a simple, practical map. Read more
Condition & Materials
March 1922 geographical passenger map of the Underground system, 28 x 35 cm, printed in colours with travel information on the verso, a couple of trivial ink spots to verso. Read less