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  • The Lime Quarry The Lime Quarry

    (art) Made by: Sutherland, Graham (OM) 1943

    image: a two tiered white rock emerges from a flat landscape with a road winding towards the left under a dark sky.

  • Women at Work in a Munition Factory, Blackburn, 1941 Women at Work in a Munition Factory, Blackburn, 1941

    (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1941

    image: rows of women in blue uniforms and head scarves stand at table top machines in a factory workshop with large draped windows.

  • Forging a Big Gun, Sheffield, 1941 Forging a Big Gun, Sheffield, 1941

    (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1941

    image: a view inside the forge, showing groups of workers watching a large red-hot mould for the barrel of a big gun, suspended with ropes and pulleys from the forge ceiling. Similar activity is going on in the background. The room is filled with clouds...

  • Two Girls Sitting In A Window: Series of sketches for work in IWM Two Girls Sitting In A Window: Series of sketches for work in IWM

    (art) Made by: Richards, Albert

    image: A girl sits on a window sill looking along the street. Another girl stands inside, behind her, looking out in the same direction.

  • Learning her Job at a Steelworks Learning her Job at a Steelworks

    (art) Made by: Ensor, Arthur John 1942

    image: A woman and a man stand with their backs to the viewer, facing a large control panel, covered in levers and buttons. They are on a platform, high above the floor of the steel works, which spreads out below them. Both are watching some workers on...

  • Study for 'Arming a Merchantman, North Dock' Study for 'Arming a Merchantman, North Dock'

    (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA)

    image: A view of the bow of a merchant ship with a gangplank leading up to the deck. A ladder leans against a gun emplacement which is being prepared.

  • In a Medical Aid Post : back view of sister In a Medical Aid Post : back view of sister

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

    image: A sister is seem with her back to the viewer talking to a man leaning against the wall. Behind them is curtained cubicle and a cabinet holding some bottles.

  • recto: Helicopter being tested at UN Port
verso: Compositional Sketch
'Cyprus' Series, 1978 recto: Helicopter being tested at UN Port verso: Compositional Sketch 'Cyprus' Series, 1978

    (art) Made by: Devane, John 1978

    image: a helicoptor stationed on the ground with a pilot at the controls. There are buildings, including an observational tower, in the background.

  • Studies of Bomber Crew at Interrogation, 3am Studies of Bomber Crew at Interrogation, 3am

    (art) Made by: Peake, Mervyn 1944

    image: one of six drawings attached together as a whole, this one positioned in the lower right of the composition. A head and shoulders portrait of an RAF airman in uniform. He is a member of a bomber crew being interrogated after a mission. He is shown...

  • View of Delville Wood, Longueval and Waterlot Farm From Montauban View of Delville Wood, Longueval and Waterlot Farm From Montauban

    (art) Made by: Clark, John Cosmo 1916

    image: A view of a smoking, charred forest from behind a wall of sandbags. The foreground is covered in wood and wire. Surrounding the forest are several explosions, throwing clouds of earth and smoke into the sky. Several planes are flying overhead.

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