1921 London Underground Map - By Macdonald Gill
What to See & How to Travel - Underground - Map of the Electric Railways of London. 1921.
Designed by Macdonald Gill. Printed by Dangerfield & Co Printers for London Underground Electric Railways. Folded paper pocket map. Print Code 1,000,000 9-3-21. Measures 27.5cm x 34.5cm. Condition: Excellent. Some light wear and browning. signs of once being attached to something along one edge.
This wonderful fold-out pocket map of the London Underground was the first in a series of maps (1920-1924) designed by Macdonald Gill. Gill applied an elegant and decorative quality to the Underground map with ornate borders and the use of calligraphy for station names whilst removing all topographical detail including the River Thames.
Like the 1919 Underground map, Gills 1921 map was printed on the same poor quality paper hence very few survive and those that do are usually torn and heavily discoloured. Therefore an example in this condition is particularly rare.
Max (as he was known to his friends) was a versatile and highly sought after artist, cartographer and illustrator that worked regularly with Frank Pick and the Underground Electric Railways Company. His most notable work for the Underground was in 1913 and the remarkable pictorial map of London titled "By Paying Us Your Pennies" (later renamed the Wonderground Map of London).
Whilst Gill is best known for defining a new genre in pictorial mapping he boasts an enormous and varied body of work from children’s book illustration to architecture.
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What to See & How to Travel - Underground - Map of the Electric Railways of London. 1921.
Designed by Macdonald Gill. Printed by Dangerfield & Co Printers for London Underground Electric Railways. Folded paper pocket map. Print Code 1,000,000 9-3-21. Measures 27.5cm x 34.5cm. Condition: Excellent. Some light wear and browning. signs of once being attached to something along one edge.
This wonderful fold-out pocket map of the London Underground was the first in a series of maps (1920-1924) designed by Macdonald Gill. Gill applied an elegant and decorative quality to the Underground map with ornate borders and the use of calligraphy for station names whilst removing all topographical detail including the River Thames.
Like the 1919 Underground map, Gills 1921 map was printed on the same poor quality paper hence very few survive and those that do are usually torn and heavily discoloured. Therefore an example in this condition is particularly rare.
Max (as he was known to his friends) was a versatile and highly sought after artist, cartographer and illustrator that worked regularly with Frank Pick and the Underground Electric Railways Company. His most notable work for the Underground was in 1913 and the remarkable pictorial map of London titled "By Paying Us Your Pennies" (later renamed the Wonderground Map of London).
Whilst Gill is best known for defining a new genre in pictorial mapping he boasts an enormous and varied body of work from children’s book illustration to architecture.
FREE UK DELIVERY. Non-UK Delivery available, please request a quotation
What to See & How to Travel - Underground - Map of the Electric Railways of London. 1921.
Designed by Macdonald Gill. Printed by Dangerfield & Co Printers for London Underground Electric Railways. Folded paper pocket map. Print Code 1,000,000 9-3-21. Measures 27.5cm x 34.5cm. Condition: Excellent. Some light wear and browning. signs of once being attached to something along one edge.
This wonderful fold-out pocket map of the London Underground was the first in a series of maps (1920-1924) designed by Macdonald Gill. Gill applied an elegant and decorative quality to the Underground map with ornate borders and the use of calligraphy for station names whilst removing all topographical detail including the River Thames.
Like the 1919 Underground map, Gills 1921 map was printed on the same poor quality paper hence very few survive and those that do are usually torn and heavily discoloured. Therefore an example in this condition is particularly rare.
Max (as he was known to his friends) was a versatile and highly sought after artist, cartographer and illustrator that worked regularly with Frank Pick and the Underground Electric Railways Company. His most notable work for the Underground was in 1913 and the remarkable pictorial map of London titled "By Paying Us Your Pennies" (later renamed the Wonderground Map of London).
Whilst Gill is best known for defining a new genre in pictorial mapping he boasts an enormous and varied body of work from children’s book illustration to architecture.
FREE UK DELIVERY. Non-UK Delivery available, please request a quotation