Lilian Lancaster - Germany - 1868
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Lilian Lancaster - Germany - 1868
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Vintage Map
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Digital Art - Printed Map
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First published in "Geographical Fun, Humorous Outlines of Various Countries" by Hodder & Stoughton in London in 1868, this amusing comic map of recently unified Germany, depicted in the form of a beautifuly dressed dancing lady. It was one of a series of twelve amusing maps of European countries originally designed by teenage artist, Eliza Jane Lancaster [1852-1939] as a distraction to entertain her younger brother during a protracted bout of illness at home.The accompanying rhyming verses were composed by the London journalist William Harvey [1796-1873], who worked under the pen name "Aleph". Eliza Jane subsequently became a popular British actress & comedienne, taking the stage name Lilian Lancaster. A pantomimne artiste on the British provincial stage during the 1870s & early 1880s, she even toured the United States with George Conquest's "Grim Goblin" Pantomime Company in 1880-1. It was here, at New York's Wallack's Theater, that she wowed American audiences with performances of the then hugely popular comic song, "Lardy Dah! Lardy Dah!", during the all too brief, accident-prone run of Conquest's pantomime. After marrying a wealthy Yorkshire landowner in 1884, Lilian left the stage and retired to the country & a life of relative obscurity. Following her husband's early death in 1897 she became active again as a comic mapmaker & cartoonist. In 1912 she designed a series of charming pictorial maps to illustrate E L Hoskyn's popular children's book, a compilation of traditional folk tales & legends, entitled "Stories of Old". Lilian Lancaster died in London in August 1939.
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