Garbutt’s 1970 Quad Royal Station Map British Empire Exhibition Map of the Franco-German frontier

Map of the Franco-German frontier

The map was published in Sir George Leonard Staunton's ‘An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China’

Merbat Bay and Kishin Bay

101 x 26 cm

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Garbutt’s 1970 Quad Royal Station Map British Empire Exhibition Map of the Franco-German frontierGarbutt believed he had rescued the London Underground map from the clutches of Harold Hutchison and his ham fisted parody of Becks designs. His basic configuration proved extremely durable, featuring a thermos flask shaped Circle Line, horizontal Central Line and vertical Northern Line, but with effective use of diagonals which helped return the map closer to geographical reality than Becks later rectilinear designs. Roberts suggests that it works