1930s Map of Ceylon - Her Tea and Other Industries - By Macdonald Gill
Ceylon - Her Tea and Other Industries
Designed by Macdonald Gill. Published by The Tea Bureau. Measures 94cm x 75cm. Colour Lithograph. Condition: Excellent. Wonderfully Bright with no folds. Some minor creasing and a tiny 1cm tear at the bottom. a remarkable survivor.
Macdonald Leslie Gill (1884-1947), or Max he was known to his friends, was a versatile and highly sought after commercial artist, cartographer and illustrator who produced extraordinary works for Commonwealth Governments, industry bodies and (most notably) London Transport.
Whilst his work spread across a broad spectrum of commercial design, it was was his detailed pictorial maps that he was best known. In 1913, Gill produced an highly detailed and engaging map of London for the London Underground, later called the Wonderground Map of London. Its huge popularity lead to a resurgence in pictorial map design both by Gill himself and many others trying to achieve the same intrigue, mainly for marketing purposes.
Later in Gill’s career, he created a number of maps for Commonwealth Governments with the 1933 map “Ceylon - Her Tea and Other Industries” being the first of this kind. Similar maps of Australia and New Zealand would follow, produced as propaganda posters during WWII.
This map of Ceylon was originally commission in 1933 by the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board (CTPB) whose mission was to reverse the decline in tea drinking (particularly in Britain which represented nearly 70% of its market). Over a period of 15 years a few versions of this map have been published as the CTPB (later named The Tea Bureau and then The Tea Centre) in response to increasing competition from India and other tea exports.
Printed in two posters sizes - This edition is in the smaller 76cm x 50cm format and is an early iteration of the first 1933 design. As it is published by The Tea Bureau it dates around the mid 1930s to early 1940s. The Tea Bureau become the Tea Centre in 1946. During this period, Gill continued to fiddle with the map therefore one can place these different issues in a rough chronological order. This poster has the blue/white striped sea of the 1933 issue but the title box is has changed to a scroll design placing it firmly between the first and a later known 1940s issue.
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Ceylon - Her Tea and Other Industries
Designed by Macdonald Gill. Published by The Tea Bureau. Measures 94cm x 75cm. Colour Lithograph. Condition: Excellent. Wonderfully Bright with no folds. Some minor creasing and a tiny 1cm tear at the bottom. a remarkable survivor.
Macdonald Leslie Gill (1884-1947), or Max he was known to his friends, was a versatile and highly sought after commercial artist, cartographer and illustrator who produced extraordinary works for Commonwealth Governments, industry bodies and (most notably) London Transport.
Whilst his work spread across a broad spectrum of commercial design, it was was his detailed pictorial maps that he was best known. In 1913, Gill produced an highly detailed and engaging map of London for the London Underground, later called the Wonderground Map of London. Its huge popularity lead to a resurgence in pictorial map design both by Gill himself and many others trying to achieve the same intrigue, mainly for marketing purposes.
Later in Gill’s career, he created a number of maps for Commonwealth Governments with the 1933 map “Ceylon - Her Tea and Other Industries” being the first of this kind. Similar maps of Australia and New Zealand would follow, produced as propaganda posters during WWII.
This map of Ceylon was originally commission in 1933 by the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board (CTPB) whose mission was to reverse the decline in tea drinking (particularly in Britain which represented nearly 70% of its market). Over a period of 15 years a few versions of this map have been published as the CTPB (later named The Tea Bureau and then The Tea Centre) in response to increasing competition from India and other tea exports.
Printed in two posters sizes - This edition is in the smaller 76cm x 50cm format and is an early iteration of the first 1933 design. As it is published by The Tea Bureau it dates around the mid 1930s to early 1940s. The Tea Bureau become the Tea Centre in 1946. During this period, Gill continued to fiddle with the map therefore one can place these different issues in a rough chronological order. This poster has the blue/white striped sea of the 1933 issue but the title box is has changed to a scroll design placing it firmly between the first and a later known 1940s issue.
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Ceylon - Her Tea and Other Industries
Designed by Macdonald Gill. Published by The Tea Bureau. Measures 94cm x 75cm. Colour Lithograph. Condition: Excellent. Wonderfully Bright with no folds. Some minor creasing and a tiny 1cm tear at the bottom. a remarkable survivor.
Macdonald Leslie Gill (1884-1947), or Max he was known to his friends, was a versatile and highly sought after commercial artist, cartographer and illustrator who produced extraordinary works for Commonwealth Governments, industry bodies and (most notably) London Transport.
Whilst his work spread across a broad spectrum of commercial design, it was was his detailed pictorial maps that he was best known. In 1913, Gill produced an highly detailed and engaging map of London for the London Underground, later called the Wonderground Map of London. Its huge popularity lead to a resurgence in pictorial map design both by Gill himself and many others trying to achieve the same intrigue, mainly for marketing purposes.
Later in Gill’s career, he created a number of maps for Commonwealth Governments with the 1933 map “Ceylon - Her Tea and Other Industries” being the first of this kind. Similar maps of Australia and New Zealand would follow, produced as propaganda posters during WWII.
This map of Ceylon was originally commission in 1933 by the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board (CTPB) whose mission was to reverse the decline in tea drinking (particularly in Britain which represented nearly 70% of its market). Over a period of 15 years a few versions of this map have been published as the CTPB (later named The Tea Bureau and then The Tea Centre) in response to increasing competition from India and other tea exports.
Printed in two posters sizes - This edition is in the smaller 76cm x 50cm format and is an early iteration of the first 1933 design. As it is published by The Tea Bureau it dates around the mid 1930s to early 1940s. The Tea Bureau become the Tea Centre in 1946. During this period, Gill continued to fiddle with the map therefore one can place these different issues in a rough chronological order. This poster has the blue/white striped sea of the 1933 issue but the title box is has changed to a scroll design placing it firmly between the first and a later known 1940s issue.
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