1923 London Underground Map - By Macdonald Gill 1/1/23
Underground - What to See & How to Travel - Map of the Electric Railways of London. 1923.
Designed by Macdonald Gill. Printed byWaterlow & Sons for London Underground Electric Railways. Folded paper pocket map. Print Code 1/1/23. Measures 45cm x 37cm. Condition: Outstanding.
This wonderful fold-out pocket map of the London Underground was designed by Macdonald Gill who also designed maps of the Underground between 1920-1924. 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.
Though this edition has a January 1923 print code it was clearly issued later in the year or early 1924 owing to the overprint highlighting the stations from which to alight for the British Empire Exhibition (opened April 1924). Later print runs of this map will have 4 or even 5 stations highlighted in this way. This 1923-24 design was largest in the Gill series and the only one to bear the UndergrounD roundel on the map itself. This 1/1/23 edition shows the (now) Nothern Line extension to Edgware as in construction, which was completed in 1924.
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.
Underground - What to See & How to Travel - Map of the Electric Railways of London. 1923.
Designed by Macdonald Gill. Printed byWaterlow & Sons for London Underground Electric Railways. Folded paper pocket map. Print Code 1/1/23. Measures 45cm x 37cm. Condition: Outstanding.
This wonderful fold-out pocket map of the London Underground was designed by Macdonald Gill who also designed maps of the Underground between 1920-1924. 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.
Though this edition has a January 1923 print code it was clearly issued later in the year or early 1924 owing to the overprint highlighting the stations from which to alight for the British Empire Exhibition (opened April 1924). Later print runs of this map will have 4 or even 5 stations highlighted in this way. This 1923-24 design was largest in the Gill series and the only one to bear the UndergrounD roundel on the map itself. This 1/1/23 edition shows the (now) Nothern Line extension to Edgware as in construction, which was completed in 1924.
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.
Underground - What to See & How to Travel - Map of the Electric Railways of London. 1923.
Designed by Macdonald Gill. Printed byWaterlow & Sons for London Underground Electric Railways. Folded paper pocket map. Print Code 1/1/23. Measures 45cm x 37cm. Condition: Outstanding.
This wonderful fold-out pocket map of the London Underground was designed by Macdonald Gill who also designed maps of the Underground between 1920-1924. 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.
Though this edition has a January 1923 print code it was clearly issued later in the year or early 1924 owing to the overprint highlighting the stations from which to alight for the British Empire Exhibition (opened April 1924). Later print runs of this map will have 4 or even 5 stations highlighted in this way. This 1923-24 design was largest in the Gill series and the only one to bear the UndergrounD roundel on the map itself. This 1/1/23 edition shows the (now) Nothern Line extension to Edgware as in construction, which was completed in 1924.
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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