Webbingbabel Collection

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Mrs Phyllis Mabey donated this collection of over 300 posters to the British Council. In August 1977, she wrote: "I should be very glad to hand the collection to The British Council as a gift, as I feel sure that it could not be in better hands, and it will be kept as a collection and not broken up.I wish that the collection be preserved as an entity and that it should be known as the Mike Webb Collection ." well as advertising posters by Aubrey Beardsley for magazines. Since the bequest the collection was augmented by post-war works by leading British artists and designers acquired by General Exhibition Department. Read less