Mayson's ordnance model of the Lake District. : Exhibited daily during the year at the Lake District Repository Lake Road Keswick.
Mayson, Henry.
[Keswick : Henry Mayson,
1880?]
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Poster advertising a tourist attraction in Keswick, Cumbria.
Henry Mayson was a commercial photographer based in Keswick. In 1875 he and his brother Thomas Mayson commissioned a plaster relief model of the Lake District from Raffaele Monti and his team of sculptors, based on Ordnance Survey maps, which was put on display in Mayson's Lake Road studio in Keswick. The original model is believed to have been lost or destroyed in the 1970s or 1980s.
Printed by the Edinburgh-based lithographers McFarlane and Erskine, the design shows style shows the Victorian 'Fern Craze' known as Pteridomania.
Topographic maps
England Keswick.