Ernest
Dudley Chase (1878-1966)
World Wonders – A Pictorial
Map
Ernest Dudley Chase, Winchester, Massachusetts: 1939
Signed lower left in pencil:
ET Dudley Chase
Color photo process print
19 x 25 inches, overall
17.5 x 23.5 inches, image
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World Wonders, A Pictorial Map
Ernest Dudley Chase
Ernest Dudley Chase
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Pictorial map illustrating the numerous wonders and feats of mankind and marvels
of nature across the world. Included are the Statue of Liberty, Empire
State Building , Mayan temples, Egyptian Sphinx, Great Wall of China
, the Kremlin, Stonehenge , the Hindenburg, the Mona Lisa, the kangaroo,
rhinoceros, buffalo and the grizzly bear. Numerous views appear throughout
the upper and lower portions of the map with brief descriptions, including
the “Seven Wonders” of the ancient world. The map is executed on Mercator's
projection with a decorative cartouche, the border with ornate corners.
The map is signed in pencil in the lower left by its designer, Ernest Dudley Chase, a graphic artist from Winchester , Massachusetts . He gave many of his works to the Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library, which featured them in the exhibition "The Pictorial Maps of Ernest Dudley Chase" from February to April 2003. According to the curators of the exhibit, Chase "designed pictorial maps ranging in scale from his own hometown to global themes of navigation, exploration, communication, and world peace. He could be alternately whimsical, didactic, and subtly allusive--often on the same map." Chase was also the author of The Romance of Greeting Cards, a history of the medium published in 1927, with a revised edition in 1956. Another copy of this map, from the collection of the Harvard College Library, appears in the book You Are Here by Katharine Harmon, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004, pp. 122-123. Reference: "The Boston Map Society's Upcoming Events." Harvard Map Collection. 2002. http://hcl.harvard.edu/maps/bms/bmsevent.html (3 February 2003). |