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Erecting Aeroplanes
Bone, Sir W. Muirhead, 1917, Publisher's print
Erecting Aeroplanes
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33561
Title
Erecting Aeroplanes
Description
Accompanying text reads:
"A great contrast to the scenes in the gun shop. Here everything is light and delicate, the bright, varnished wood curved to delicate shapes like violins, the women flitting with their needlecraft around the wide, dazzling planes and the brilliant pigmy engines shining like jewels - all seem gay and exhilarating after the sombre company of the guns. There is even a lightsome airiness about the thought that these delicate creations fly away from their makers' hands when completed and do not burden any railway with their transit."
Artist / maker
Bone, Sir W. Muirhead
Date
1917
Size
14.3 x 21.5 cm
Type
Publisher's print
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Crown Copyright
You can find more information on
Aerial warfare during World War I
from the British Library's website.
Muirhead Bone was Britain's first official war artist and also a driving force behind the foundation of the Imperial War Museum. Find out more about the history and collections of the museum from the
Imperial War Museum
website.
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Muirhead Bone and World War One
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