Cambridgeshire

Method Colour offset lithograph
Artist Clegg, Ernest
Published John Waddington Limited, Leeds, England, 1947
Dimensions 530 x 410 mm
Notes A very decorative and colourful map of Cambridgeshire, designed by Ernest Clegg for an incomplete series published by Countryman Magazine entitled The Countryman County Maps of Britain. The map, like the others in the series, was intended to promote British manufacture, industry, and agriculture, and to raise money for the Women's Land Army Benevolent Fund during the lean years following the close of the second World War. Printed in full colour with decorative vignettes of ..........................................

Ernest Clegg (1876-1954) was a British graphic designer, cartogapher, and advertiser, active in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Clegg served in the Boer War and the First World War, and although resident in America at the outbreak of World War Two, returned to England in 1944, producing a series of British County maps for the Countryman Magazine.
Framing unmounted
Price £175.00
Stock ID 21813

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