Ink and watercolour on paper
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Whitehall Palace and Banqueting Hall
Purchased 1940
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Whitehall Palace
Whitehall, Banqueting House
paper unique ink watercolour
Whitehall Palace and Banqueting Hall
support: 533 × 737 mm
Purchased 1940
<p><b>N05168</b> WHITEHALL PALACE AND BANQUETING HALL 1940</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Methuen May 1940’ b.l.
<br/>Pen and watercolour, 21×29 (53·5×73·5).
<br/>Purchased from the artist through the Leicester Galleries (Clarke Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, May–June 1940 (39).</p>
<p>The site in the foreground is now filled by the large Ministry of Defence offices; its clearance was begun in 1938 but was interrupted by the war.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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adults architecture building site crane England figure objects people places tools and machinery townscape townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions UK London Whitehall, Banqueting House Whitehall Palace