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Searchlight Tattoo Wembley
Presented by the Department of Overseas Trade 1927
painting oil paint canvas
The Searchlight Tattoo, Wembley
support: 762 × 1270 mm
Presented by the Department of Overseas Trade 1927
<p><b>N04230</b> THE SEARCHLIGHT TATTOO, WEMBLEY 1925</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 30×50 (76·5×127).
<br/>Presented by the Department of Overseas Trade 1927.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1926 (134), as ‘The Tattoo’; R.A., <i>Late Members</i>, winter 1928 (510), as painted in 1925.</p>
<p>The tattoo was held during the Empire Exhibition at Wembley 1924–5.</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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