'London - The Bastion of Liberty' By Kerry Lee - Quad Royal Poster (1946)
London - The Bastion of Liberty (1946)
Designed by Kerry Lee (1902-1988). 1946. Printed by Chromo works Ltd for The Travel Association of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. Colour lithograph on paper. Quad Royal - Measures 127cm x 101cm (50”x40”). Condition: Excellent. Linen-backed with some minor restoration and small areas of loss.
This stunning pictorial map of London was designed by the renowned artist and map maker Kerry Lee who produced two pictorial maps of London - ‘London Town’ in 1938 and then ‘London - The Bastion of Liberty’ in 1946.
Tim Bryars (www.bryarsandbryars.co.uk/blogs) has produced some great blogs that go into depth about Kerry Lee’s life and work including his two London Maps. I must direct you to these blogs rather than going into detail here!
On this map Tim writes “Kerry Lee’s.. ‘the Bastion of Liberty’, was drawn in 1946 after Kerry was demobbed. At least as rich as ‘London Town’ in terms of historical, architectural and literary detail, it celebrates the capital’s survival and symbolic wartime role. Lee chose an apposite quote by Churchill: "We would rather see London in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved." Lee worked on this map for 6 months in his Baker Street studio.
When viewing this wonderful map, one immediately reminded of Macdonald Gill’s ‘Wonderground Map of London’ (1914, 1924, 1927). The careers of Lee and Gill saw significant overlap in the 1930s/40s and as Tim Bryars put it, “It is inconceivable that Kerry Lee was unaware of other artists working in the field of pictorial maps, such as MacDonald Gill, but there is no evidence that he knew any of them personally.”
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London - The Bastion of Liberty (1946)
Designed by Kerry Lee (1902-1988). 1946. Printed by Chromo works Ltd for The Travel Association of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. Colour lithograph on paper. Quad Royal - Measures 127cm x 101cm (50”x40”). Condition: Excellent. Linen-backed with some minor restoration and small areas of loss.
This stunning pictorial map of London was designed by the renowned artist and map maker Kerry Lee who produced two pictorial maps of London - ‘London Town’ in 1938 and then ‘London - The Bastion of Liberty’ in 1946.
Tim Bryars (www.bryarsandbryars.co.uk/blogs) has produced some great blogs that go into depth about Kerry Lee’s life and work including his two London Maps. I must direct you to these blogs rather than going into detail here!
On this map Tim writes “Kerry Lee’s.. ‘the Bastion of Liberty’, was drawn in 1946 after Kerry was demobbed. At least as rich as ‘London Town’ in terms of historical, architectural and literary detail, it celebrates the capital’s survival and symbolic wartime role. Lee chose an apposite quote by Churchill: "We would rather see London in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved." Lee worked on this map for 6 months in his Baker Street studio.
When viewing this wonderful map, one immediately reminded of Macdonald Gill’s ‘Wonderground Map of London’ (1914, 1924, 1927). The careers of Lee and Gill saw significant overlap in the 1930s/40s and as Tim Bryars put it, “It is inconceivable that Kerry Lee was unaware of other artists working in the field of pictorial maps, such as MacDonald Gill, but there is no evidence that he knew any of them personally.”
Free UK Delivery. For Non-UK Delivery please request quotation.
London - The Bastion of Liberty (1946)
Designed by Kerry Lee (1902-1988). 1946. Printed by Chromo works Ltd for The Travel Association of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. Colour lithograph on paper. Quad Royal - Measures 127cm x 101cm (50”x40”). Condition: Excellent. Linen-backed with some minor restoration and small areas of loss.
This stunning pictorial map of London was designed by the renowned artist and map maker Kerry Lee who produced two pictorial maps of London - ‘London Town’ in 1938 and then ‘London - The Bastion of Liberty’ in 1946.
Tim Bryars (www.bryarsandbryars.co.uk/blogs) has produced some great blogs that go into depth about Kerry Lee’s life and work including his two London Maps. I must direct you to these blogs rather than going into detail here!
On this map Tim writes “Kerry Lee’s.. ‘the Bastion of Liberty’, was drawn in 1946 after Kerry was demobbed. At least as rich as ‘London Town’ in terms of historical, architectural and literary detail, it celebrates the capital’s survival and symbolic wartime role. Lee chose an apposite quote by Churchill: "We would rather see London in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved." Lee worked on this map for 6 months in his Baker Street studio.
When viewing this wonderful map, one immediately reminded of Macdonald Gill’s ‘Wonderground Map of London’ (1914, 1924, 1927). The careers of Lee and Gill saw significant overlap in the 1930s/40s and as Tim Bryars put it, “It is inconceivable that Kerry Lee was unaware of other artists working in the field of pictorial maps, such as MacDonald Gill, but there is no evidence that he knew any of them personally.”
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