A Picture of Surrey by John L. Baker

Donated by a Museum supporter.

In a sequence of carefully planned chapters the reader is taken along the roads and rivers of Surrey and through its towns and villages. Along the way farm houses, cottages, churches and stately homes are described by the author.

Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, writer and lecturer, born in Birmingham, where he attended the School of Art, then Slade School of Fine Art. Worked under the guidance of the prolific newspaper draughtsman Hanslip Fletcher and freelanced for various publications, also lecturing on anatomy at Sir John Cass School. During the 1970s showed at RP, portraying civic dignitaries and show business personalities, then developed towards animal painting, involved in the early days of the Society of Equestrian Artists. Baker from 1966 wrote and illustrated a series of articles in the Surrey Advertiser called The Seeing Eye, and gained a local reputation as a controversial critic on architecture. He published A Picture of Surrey in 1980. Latterly lived near Salisbury, Wiltshire.

This edition was published in 1980. 224 pages with black and white drawings by the author.

The book is in good condition for its age.