Lithograph, 1933

133 by 95 mm (5 ½ by 3 ¾ ins)

Boswell’s famous set of eight lithographs The Fall of London were made the in the same year as the AIA’s foundation in 1933. Here the artist laid bare the implicit consequence of the spectre of fascism against the backdrop of his depressed city. William Feaver has written of the series: “Here was the long-awaited apocalypse: looting and mass panic, as familiar landmarks – Waterloo, the British Museum, a Lyons Corner House and London Bridge – toppled” (Feaver, op cit, p.5). The set were exhibited in the Peace Pavilion at the Paris Exposition Internationale later that year and sets are held by the British Museum and the Tate Gallery.