1924

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    The World in the Time of Cabot (1517)

    Bellissima carta del mondo così come era conosciuto al tempo dell’esploratore Giovanni Caboto disegnata dal celebre artista inglese MacDonald Gill nel 1924 (firma in basso a sinistra). La carta è inserita nel volume Pageant of British Empire, Souvenir Volume… An Anthology of British Empire di E.V. Lucas, splendida opera riccamente illustrata con le litografie di famosi artisti dell’epoca come Frank Brangwyn, Spencer Pryse e appunto MacDonald Gill, che celebra la storia dell’Impero Britannico e il…

    • Author: Leslie MacDonald Gill
    • Dimension: 41 x 31 cm
    • Year: 1924
    • Place of publication: London

  • 世界新漫画鳥瞰圗 / New Caricatured Bird’s-Eye View Map of the World / Sekai Shin Manga Chōkanzu

    € 1.500,00

    The World as Satire and Vision: “Sekai Shin Manga Chōkanzu” (1924) The Sekai Shin Manga Chōkanzu (New Caricatured Bird’s-Eye View Map of the World), published in 1924 (Taishō 13), represents one of the most significant and fascinating pinnacles of Japanese pictorial and satirical cartography in the early postwar period. This work is part of the editorial and cultural tradition known as Manga Chizu (comic/caricature maps), which flourished in Japan between the end of the Meiji…

    • Author: Ogawa Jihei (小川治平) & Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆)
    • Dimension: 73 x 105 cm
    • Place of publication: Tokyo
    • Year: 1924