I was down at the Royal Geographical Society earlier in the week, and they had a display of Dudley Stamp related items including one of his plaster relief models. I'd seen these in storage when I had a tour of the Society's HQ about 6 months ago, and it was good to see some of them now out in one of the display cases near the Map Room. They are the best collection still existing.
The book with an image of the model.
An oblique view of the model. Thomas Bayley made this, and 23 others for use in photographic plates in Dudley Stamp's 1951 book 'The Earth's Crust'.
Vertical image of the model of the Peruvian landscape.
The models formed the basis of PhD research by George Tobin which is described here.
You can also watch a talk that George gave on the link here. Part of the 'Be Inspired' series.
Images: Alan Parkinson, shared under CC license on Flickr.
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