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On a Fortified Island Night Watch
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
architecture
clothing and personal items
Firth of Forth
fortification
group
groups
heating and lighting
history
interior - non-specific
interiors
Isle of Inchkeith
man
military
military
military: World War II
objects
people
places
public and municipal
Scotland
sitting
sleeping
soldier
stove
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
uniform / kit
work and occupations
World War II - non-specific
paper unique watercolour ink
On a Fortified Island, the Night Watch
support: 273 × 349 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p><b>N05672</b> ON A FORTIFIED ISLAND, THE NIGHT WATCH 1941
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<br/>Not inscribed.	 
<br/>Watercolour, pen and ink (sight), 10 3/4×13 3/4 (26·5×25).	 
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.	 
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>National War Pictures</i>, provincial galleries and National Gallery, 1945 (no catalogue).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> William Coldstream, <i>War Pictures by British Artists: Second Series: Soldiers,</i> 1943, pl.25; Eric Newton, <i>War through Artists' Eyes</i>, 1945, p.16.</p>
<p>The artist explained (letter of 7 October 1959) that ‘the island was Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth. It was heavily fortified and armed with a battery of large guns in concrete emplacements.’</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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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults architecture clothing and personal items Firth of Forth fortification group groups heating and lighting history interior - non-specific interiors Isle of Inchkeith man military military military: World War II objects people places public and municipal Scotland sitting sleeping soldier stove UK countries and regions UK natural features uniform / kit work and occupations World War II - non-specific