Dear Tinho
I was so sorry not to be able to do this visit with you. I had just come back from leave so didn’t see your message until the day itself – and saw it at work, as I now work one Saturday a month, hence I wasn’t able to join you.
I did go to see the exhibition last weekend, though, and was very glad that I did. Apart from my interest in his craftsmanship and architectural side, we are also featuring the ‘Highways of Empire’ poster map in our book, and I had never seen one with Gill’s text below the map – with a note that it could be cut off, which I think was him realising that his vision of the poster (to show the view as if from a plane) didn’t quite accord with what he was commissioned to show (Britain at the centre of the world) which the map actually does show.
I’m sure that the family/curators had fascinating insights, so was sorry to miss it, and of course your companionable company, too.
Best wishes
Tinho
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Subject: MacDonald Gill exhibition - Special tour this Saturday
Just a reminder of the special tour of the Max Gill exhibition this Saturday that Tony Campbell drew to our attention in August. I’m going; any other map librarians intending to do so?
Tinho
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Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, Ealing, west London
Until 2 November 2013
Another chance to see the MacDonald Gill exhibition, originally shown in Brighton in summer 2011, here with some additional material.
http://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/200893/pm_gallery_and_house/686/exhibitions/2
With a gallery tour 2pm on Saturday 19 October by the Gill family members who discovered and catalogued the hoard of material, discovered in the eaves of a Sussex cottage.
Examples of Gill’s cartographic work:
http://www.macdonaldgill.com/content/poster-maps
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Map Curator,
Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences,
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