Nov 10, 2003 - Sale 1984

Sale 1984 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FRED TAYLOR THE COLLEGES OF CAMBRIDGE. Circa 1950.
401/4x50 inches. Baynard Press.
Condition A-: minor tears, creases and staining in margins.
A colorful, aerial view of the town, buildings, River Cam and environs of Cambridge, with her colleges depicted in architectural detail, accompanied by their crests. Taylor designed a similar poster-map for Oxford, and many of his other posters exhibit a similar near-photographic realism.