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London Postcards

Hardback

Main Details

Title London Postcards
Authors and Contributors      Illustrated by David Gentleman
By (author) David Gentleman
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:100
Dimensions(mm): Height 170,Width 115
Category/GenreIllustration
ISBN/Barcode 9780241443927
ClassificationsDewey:741.6
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Particular Books
Publication Date 5 November 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A collection of 100 London postcards, each featuring a different artwork by the legendary painter David Gentleman. From shabby post-war St Paul's to the glittering Shard skyscraper, here are over seventy years of quintessential London views in one box. In 1950, aged 19, David Gentleman arrived into a war-torn city, ready to begin his life as an artist. Over the next seven decades, he would sketch, paint, and engrave his way through London, documenting the cityscape, and shaping it, too - most notably through his iconic mural in Charing Cross Underground Station. Combining world-famous imagery with unexpectedly lovely scenes from daily life in the city, this box of London artworks is a veritable treasure trove for all those who flock to the capital.

Author Biography

David Gentleman is a painter and printmaker, working in many mediums. He has designed British postage stamps and coins, and the platform-length mural, blown up from his wood engravings, well-known to Londoners, at Charing Cross on the underground. His studio is at the top of an early Victorian house in Camden Town between the crowded, rackety Camden Lock and the green spaces of Regent's Park and Primrose Hill.

Reviews

David Gentleman is London's visual laureate -- Quentin Blake