London. North (Stanley Kennedy), Map of the British Empire Exhibition, 1924

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London. North (Stanley Kennedy), British Empire Exhibition 1924, Wembley Park April - October, Its Situation Described in Relation to the Railways of London, Dobson, Molle & Co. Ltd, Edinburgh, Liverpool & London, 1924, colour lithographic pictorial map of the layout of the British Empire Exhibition, slight spotting, old folds partially strengthened on verso, 495 x 735 mm, printed on the verso are guides to the various pavillions

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The mapmaker, Stanley Kennedy North (1887-1942), has drawn upon a number of cartographic influences, especially the arts and crafts style of the maps of his contemporary Leslie MacDonald Gill (1884-1947). North later became an accomplished picture restorer and rose to become the 'Keeper of the King's Pictures', a semi-formal role later filled by Soviet spy Sir Anthony Blunt. The British Empire Exhibition at Wembley was almost a last hurrah for the Empire as it wained and declined and eventually evolved into the British Commonwealth. It was for this exhibition that the original Wembley Stadium had been built and which had opened the previous year.