Building ships: on the stocks

Place Europe: United Kingdom, Scotland, Glasgow
Accession Number ART91712
Collection type Art
Measurement Image: 35.5 x 46.2 cm; Sheet: 40.5 x 50.6cm
Object type Print
Physical description lithograph on wove paper
Maker Bone, Muirhead
Ministry of Information
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicts the construction of a ship at the Clyde Yards. The six 'Building Ships' lithographs are based on bone's drawings in the clyde yards. These are reproduced in 'The Western Front: Drawings by Muirhead Bone' II,X. This work is no 32 in the series of 66 lithographs 'The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideals' published by the British Ministry of Information, London, 1917.