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Subject:        Map of London and 'Art on the Underground'
Date:   Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:56:35 +0100
From:   Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps-L' <




With apologies for posting yet another art and cartography message, I
came across the following b&w poster (41.5 x 59 cm/16.5 x 23.25 inches)
- image 38.5 x 56 cm/15.25 x 22.25 inches - being handed out /gratis/
last Thursday, 29 November (2007) at Kings Cross St Pancras station,
London. It was the penultimate of five posters handed out Monday –
Friday, 26 – 30 November:-

‘Central London Index Drawing’ [by] Layla Curtis. “With the permission
of Geographers’ A-Z Map Co. Ltd.” Commissioned and produced by ‘Art on
the Underground’. “To find out more [about] a signed set of all five
posters visit tfl.gov.uk/pfa”. “An edition of 25,000 [yes – twenty-five
thousand, folks!] free posters given away from Victoria, Liverpool
Street, Paddington, Waterloo and Kings Cross St Pancras Underground
stations.” Generously I donated one to the British Library Map Library
(presumably considerably prior to a copyright copy being claimed and
catalogued?).

Francis Herbert (ex-Curator of Maps, including ‘arty’ map posters of
Macdonald Gill et al.)

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