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Description: | The Underground group published this poster in 1932. Gregory Brown's design uses a boomerang to represent a return journey between the City and suburbia. It links images of the fountain at Piccadilly Circus and a typical suburban house.
The winged archer seen at the top of the fountain was by the sculptor Alfred Gilbert. It was built in 1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. It was intended to be Anteros, the God of Selfless Love, although it was given the title 'The Angel of Christian Charity' and is more commonly known by Londoners as Eros.
The popular sculpture became a City icon and was even adopted by the Evening Standard newspaper as its symbol. Here it represents the centre of London. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Identity and Icons Art and Design | Temporal: | 1932 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Artist : F Gregory Brown | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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