London Map Clash Of Arms MacDonald Gill
Original vintage pictorial map poster featuring a Map of London, designed by the prominent graphic artist Leslie MacDonald Gill (1884-1947) for London Underground. The intricate artwork displays a panoramic bird's-eye view of central London, filled with dense street layouts, historical buildings, coat of arms shields, and humorous text banners. A wide border frames the cartography, decorated with heraldic emblems of London boroughs and poetic prose running along each edge - Though clash of arms gives way to peace and warring martians bow to Jove and League of Nations calls the halt, our London constant was as is. Constant through all her many trials of rise and fall within her gates of mercenaries and merchantmen or civic functionaries displaced she stands. Stands still unmoved and ever dear to tens of thousands round the world, the centre of a vast domain O Domine Dirige Nos. Printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd. Horizontal. Large size. Fair condition, restored paper losses. restored tears, restored creasing, restored folds, staining, browning, backed on linen.
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