The South Circular Celestial Menagerie print - By Anna Walsh

A delightful and intriguing limited edition print featuring animal myths and legends of London in a celestial style circular ‘sky view’.

Animal myths and legends of London are mapped out in two prints (see North Circular Celestial Menagerie too)  informed by vintage celestial globes mapping the myths and legends in the stars, which often have a ‘north’ view and ‘south’ view. 

This one is the 'South’ ('North' featured on separate print). Featuring the River Thames Whale (Cetus), The Clapham Wolf (Lupus), the Rhinoceros of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (Monoceros), the Trafalgar Square pigeons (Columba) among many others!

As all Londoners know, the north and south circular refer to the roads that circle central London, making a serendipitous title for these pieces, and all the South London boroughs are listed on the outer ‘ring’.

Each print is made up of original and meticulously hand drawn illustrations, all put together to make this truly unique and quirky print.

This limited edition print and its companion piece, North Circular Celestial Menagerie, would make the perfect pairing and look fantastic on the walls of any London animal lover or astronomy enthusiast!

Disclaimer - much artistic license is in place and the constellations are only loosely based on the actual star constellations - probably best not to navigate the seas by them!

High quality archival digital print on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper 310gsm

Size - 40 x 50 cm

Limited edition of 50