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Building Mulberry Harbour London Docks
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
adults
architecture
building site
crane
D-Day, 6 June 1944
figure
history
military: World War II
objects
people
places
scaffolding
tools and machinery
townscapes / man-made features
UK London
Wapping, London Docks
painting oil paint canvas
Building the Mulberry Harbour, London Docks
support: 561 × 1220 × 17 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p><b>N05705</b> BUILDING THE MULBERRY HARBOUR, LONDON DOCKS 1944</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Frances Macdonald, March 44’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 22×48 (56×122).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:National War Pictures</i>, R.A., October–November 1945 (277), as ‘The Docks’.</p>
<p>The Mulberry Harbour was used in the invasion of France in June 1944.</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</p>
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2004-07-22T00:00:00
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adults architecture building site crane D-Day, 6 June 1944 figure history military: World War II objects people places scaffolding tools and machinery townscapes / man-made features UK London Wapping, London Docks