drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1917,0414.10
- Description
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Gun Testing, Eskmeals; men standing on a platform preparing a large gun, crane and pulley system overhead. 1916
Black lithographic chalk
- Production date
- 1916
- Dimensions
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Height: 398 millimetres
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Width: 528 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a group of drawings of English munition works, 1916. These were made, in lithographic chalk, by permission of the Ministry of Munitions in the summer of 1916. 51 of them were transferred to stone or zinc and published as lithographs; also, much reduced, in J. Pennell's 'Pictures of War Work in England', (W, Heinemann, 1917), with introduction by H.G. Wells and texts by the artist. The rest are unpublished.
This work is from the first of two volumes of mounted drawings held by the Department of Prints and Drawings, 95 in total. 13 are also separately mounted Imperial.
This plate was lithographed as book pl. no.44 in 'Pictures of War Work in England', and is Wuerth 459.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: First World War 1914-1918
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,0414.10
