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Mounting a Great Gun

Bone, Sir W. Muirhead, 1917, Publisher's print
Mounting a Great Gun
Mounting a Great Gun
Mounting a Great Gun
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Item no
33585
Title
Mounting a Great Gun
Description
Accompanying text reads:
"This is one of the largest guns. At such a scene as its mounting one is always struck by the contrast between the restless stir of the minute figures busy about it and the massive impassivity - for the present - of the thing they have created. "A great gun," it has been said, "is so sheer." In a gun shop it dwarfs everything round it and seems the embodiment, at the same time, of immobility and of menace."
Artist / maker
Date
1917
Size
21.5 x 14.7 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Crown Copyright