| Method | Chromolithograph |
| Artist | Lee, Kerry |
| Published | Published by Pictorial Maps Ltd, for the Travel Association of Great Britain and N. Ireland [1948] |
| Dimensions | 440 x 577 mm |
| Notes |
A decorative pictorial map depicting the centre of Cambridge, with banderoles naming the colleges and interesting sites. The city is shown in a stylised birds-eye perspective, roughly centred on the chapel of King's College, with the Cam and The Backs prominent along the lower border of the image. Scenes of Cambridge's history, as well as some of its famous faces, are dotted in the streets and spaces around its historic buildings. A striding Roman legionary can be seen at the top of Regent St, while a Danish warrior rampages towards Canute, who stands by a note attesting to the City's reconstruction in AD 1130. A trio of King Henrys converge near a brooding Richard III on the lawns by Clare College, while on the opposite banks can be spied Erasmus, Chaucer, Byron, Thackeray, and Francis Bacon among others. The map is surrounded by college emblems and portraits of the founders and the founding dates of each college, as well as the Arms of the City and University in the top corners. A pair of bordered vignettes show the arrival of scholars from Oxford in 1209, as well as the 'Town & Gown off to the ancient Stourbridge Fair AD 1350,' the inspiration for the famous Vanity Fair of Bunyan and Thackeray. Kerry Ernst Lee (1903-1988) was a British artist who is best known for a series of chromolithograph advertising posters issued by British railways, designed and used to help promote British tourism after the Second World War. He attended Reading Schools of Arts and Science, the Slade, and the Sorbonne in Paris. Many of Kerry Lee's maps depict the artist sitting sketching in the corner with his dog beside him. Condition: Foxing and time toning to margins. Small surface abrasions to map. Old adhesive tape on verso, otherwise blank. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £625.00 |
| Stock ID | 52839 |