Production material for the London 'A-Z'

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Artist/Maker	Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (made)

Single transparent sheet of film printed with a map of London, parts of which have been removed by scratching off. Battersea Park and Belgravia are in the East and Isleworth and Hanwell are on the West.

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Categories	Printed Pages & Sheets Maps Designs
Object type	Design
Title	Production material for the London 'A-Z' (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Film
Brief description	Film used in the printing of the London 'A-Z', made by the Geographers' A-Z Map Company, 1989. This sheet is the 'base original.'
Physical description	Single transparent sheet of film printed with a map of London, parts of which have been removed by scratching off. Battersea Park and Belgravia are in the East and Isleworth and Hanwell are on the West.
Dimensions	Height: 65.5cm Width: 107.3cm
Marks and inscriptions	BASE ORIGINAL REVISED (Handwritten in ink, bottom right) 1989 (Handwritten in blue ink, bottom right) 29 (Handwritten twice in ink, bottom right) (Grid references inscribed along bottom and right edge in blue ink) 29 (Handwritten in ink in the top right corner, once on the front and once on the reverse) LONDON/ BASE ORIGINAL/ C/R POS/ 29 (Handwritten in ink on an adhesive address label, stuck to the film in the top left corner, upside down)
Credit line	Given by Mrs Phyllis Pearsall MBE, FRGS
Subject depicted	Maps
Place depicted	London
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.847-2003

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Record created	September 24, 2004
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O105748/production-material-for-the-london-design-geographers-a-z/

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