1948 "CAMBRIDGE - THIS IMMENSE & GLORIOUS WORK OF FINE INTELLIGENCE".

A fine example of this stunning original vintage Map Poster designed by Kerry Lee.

Overall size approximately 47cm x 60cm.

Condition is excellent. 

This edition of the map was produced around the late 1940s, depicting the historical centre of Cambridge and 20 Cambridge colleges around the edges with their founders.

Kerry Lee (1902-1988) - Well known as a creator of pictorial maps of British cities from the mid 20th century, he generally draws a self-portrait in the bottom corner by his signature – as here, where he is seen painting (mustachioed and bearded, and clad in a green tunic) with his ever-faithful dog Jim. Educated at Reading Schools of Arts and Science, the Slade and the Sorbonne in Paris, he subsequently assisted his step-father, an architect named Mr Harvey, as draftsman. Following the Depression Lee set up ‘Associated Artists’ at Blandford Studios off Baker Street, with a group of other commercial artists.

During World War 2 he was based in Hertfordshire creating detailed cut-away drawings of German aircraft, and after the war – still at Blandford Studios – published a series of pictorial maps, both those for British Rail and his own publications.