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Gallabat Guns Firing on Metemma
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
Al-Sudan
astronomy
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Gallabat
heating and lighting
history
landscape
light, searchlight
military: World War II
moon
night
North African Campaigns, 1940-3
objects
places
times of the day
weapon, firing / explosion
weapons
wooded
paper unique watercolour
Gallabat: Guns Firing on Metemma
support: 394 × 514 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p><b>N05679</b>	GALLABAT, GUNS FIRING ON METEMMA 1940
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Edward Bawden’ b.r.
<br/>Watercolour, 15 1/2×20 1/4 (39×51).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>National War Pictures</i>, National Gallery, 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (381).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> William Coldstream, <i>War Pictures by British Artists: Second Series: Soldiers</i>, 1943, pl.46; Eric Newton, <i>War through Artists' Eyes</i>, 1945, p.14 (in colour); Richards, 1946, pl.19 (in colour).</p>
<p>Nos.5679–83 were painted while the artist was attached to Wingate's mission against the Italians in Abyssinia. Gallabat is on the Sudan-Abyssinia border.</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, I</p>
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Al-Sudan astronomy cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Gallabat heating and lighting history landscape light, searchlight military: World War II moon night North African Campaigns, 1940-3 objects places times of the day weapon, firing / explosion weapons wooded