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- 1992-2011 (Creation)
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Four boxes
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Archival history
5 illustrations donated by Peter Till 21 May 2002. Further fascimile illustration donated 23 November 2004. Further illustrations dated by Peter Till in 2024.
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Scope and content
The collection comprises original black and white ink and colour illustrations, one colour facsimile illustration and cuttings of works which appeared largely in the Guardian accompanying Comment and Analysis articles from 1992-2011.
Administrative/Biographical history: Peter Till, a British illustrator, began contributing to the Guardian c1994.
Born in Manchester in 1945, he read English Literature at Cambridge University. One of his drawings was bought by Oz magazine in 1969 and his work also appeared in Time Out, beginning his career in illustration. He has contributed illustrations to major publications both nationally and worldwide, including the Radio Times, the Times, the Sunday Times, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and to magazines in France, Holland, Germany, and Australia.
In 1991 the Royal Mail commissioned him to design postage stamps portraying eminent Englishmen such as Michael Faraday, the scientist. Till won a Victoria and Albert Museum runner up award for editorial illustration in 2005.
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Chronological where date of publication is known.
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Copyright: Peter Till
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- Till; Peter (1945-); illustrator (Subject)
