Graphite and watercolour on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/eric-ravilious-1817" aria-label="More by Eric Ravilious" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Eric Ravilious</a>
Shelling by Night
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
architecture
cliff
coast
England
English Channel
harbour
history
military: World War II
night
objects
places
seascapes and coasts
times of the day
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
weapon, firing / explosion
weapons
World War II - non-specific
paper unique graphite watercolour
19 May 2014 – 10 August 2014
2014-08-10
19 May 2014 – 10 August 2014
2014-08-10
2014-05-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-05-19
Kenneth Clark
Exhibition
25 September 2021 – 30 January 2022
2022-01-30
25 September 2021 – 30 January 2022
2022-01-30
2021-09-25
Wiltshire Museum (Devizes, UK)
2021-09-25
Eric Ravilious: Downland Man
Loan-out
Shelling by Night
support: 445 × 546 mm
frame: 590 × 686 × 46 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p><b>N05724</b> SHELLING BY NIGHT 1941</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Eric Ravilious’ t.r.
<br/>Watercolour, 17 1/2×21 1/2 (44·5×54·5).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>National War Pictures</i>, R.A., October–November 1945 (623); Eastbourne and Brighton, 1948 (38); Arts Council, 1948–9 (25); Sheffield, 1958 (13).</p>
<p>This appears to be the English Channel coastline. Another picture belonging to the same period is ‘Cross Channel Shelling’ in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.</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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2004-07-22T00:00:00
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architecture cliff coast England English Channel harbour history military: World War II night objects places seascapes and coasts times of the day townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions UK natural features weapon, firing / explosion weapons World War II - non-specific