"Philips' Picture Map of London", Philip, George

Subject: London, England

Period: 1911 (circa)

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Color: Printed Color

Size:

42 x 21.8 inches
106.7 x 55.4 cm

This vast and detailed panoramic bird's-eye view of London was published to coincide with the 1911 Coronation Exhibition. It spans from the exhibition grounds near Shepherd's Bush east to the Tower Bridge. The map features intricate detail of the city, showing several sites of interest to the London visitor, including Buckingham Palace, the Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, the British Museum, and the Tower of London. It delineates the streets and shows the Metropolitan-District Railway in red and the London Underground railways in blue. Parks are prominently depicted, including Hyde Park, Regent's Park, and St. James Park. A version of this map was published to coincide with the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908, and the exhibition grounds here are still labeled as such. The Coronation Exhibition is not to be confused with the much larger Festival of Empire, which was held in the Crystal Palace, to the south of the area covered here. This example is mounted on linen.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding, now flat and mounted on heavy linen, repairing a few fold separations at bottom left.