| Method | Colour offset lithograph |
| Artist | Clegg, Ernest |
| Published | John Waddington Limited, Leeds, England, limited. c.1947 |
| Dimensions | 530 x 410 mm |
| Notes |
A very decorative and colourful map of Oxfordshire, 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 six decorative vignettes of Ditchley House, Blenheim Palace, Christ Church Cathedral, Broughton Castle, the Radcliffe Camera and the Oxford skyline. The map also includes explanatory and patriotic text with quotations from Churchill and Mercator's Atlas, and is Dedicated to Sir A.P. Herbert MP. 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 | mounted |
| Price | £175.00 |
| Stock ID | 20237 |