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Amiens Cathedral
Bone, Sir W. Muirhead, 1917, Publisher's print
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33577
Title
Amiens Cathedral
Description
Accompanying text reads:
"The 'Parthenon of Gothic Architecture' is seen in this exquisitely delicate and sensitive drawing from the south-east, with the lovely rose window of the south transept partly in view on the left. The wooden spire, which Ruskin called 'the pretty caprice of a village carpenter,' looks finer in the drawing than in the original, the relative flimsiness of the material being less apparent. Nothing is lost by the intervention of the foreground houses, as the facade of the south transept, like the famous west front and the choir stalls, is sheathed with sandbags to a height of thirty or forty feet for protection against German bombs. Patrolling French aeroplanes are seen in the sky."
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Bone, Sir W. Muirhead
Date
1917
Size
19.3 x 25.5 cm
Type
Publisher's print
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Crown Copyright
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
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Muirhead Bone and World War One
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