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• Coastal Defences

  (art) Made by: Ravilious, Eric 1940

  image: a view looking down into a wide bay from the cliff tops. The curve of the land stretches along the left side of the composition, and a searchlight beams up into the sky further along the coast. Several small boats are seen motoring out to sea from...

• War Weapons Week April 8th to 13th

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1918-03

  whole: the main title is placed across the top in yellow, with the text and image below. All held within a black border. image: a rear view of a biplane flying away from the viewer. The plane carries the insignia of the RFC and flies over the coastline....

• War Weapons Week April 8th to 13th

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1918-03

  whole: the main title is placed across the top in yellow, with the text and image below. All held within a black border. image: a seaplane flying towards the viewer and bearing the insignia of the RFC. The plane flies over the coastline away from four...

• Defend Your Freedom

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper two-thirds, held within a narrow white border. The title is integrated and placed along the top edge, in burgundy. The text is partially integrated and located in the lower half, in burgundy and in blue, held...

• Pax Aeterna [Everlasting Peace]

  (posters) Made by: Lehner, Eduard (artist)

  whole: the image occupies the whole. The title is integrated and positioned across the top edge, in red. The text is integrated and positioned in the lower centre, in black. image: a full-length depiction of a nurse standing with her right arm raised and...

• The Long White Road, Taranto

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald

  image: a view of part of the natural harbour near Taranto, with a single sailing boat in the water before a strip of buildings on a floating section of harbour. The coast is just beyond, with a long, white road stretching off across the land into the...

• Taranto

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald 1918-11-04

  image: a view from one side of the harbour at Taranto to the other. In the foreground two rowing boats and two small local sailing boats are moored near a small building. In the background, Royal Navy battleship HMS Queen and a variety of other vessels...

• Ist Schleswig Danisch? Schleswig ist Deutsch [Is Schleswig Danish? Schleswig is German]

  (posters) Made by: Kreutzfeldt, C (artist)

  whole: the main image is occupies at the centre, held within a green border. Four smaller images are placed in each corner. The title is positioned top edge centre, with a subtitle located bottom edge centre. Both apply a blue gothic script. Text, in red...

• A Russian (Ex-American) Destroyer, Russia : April 1942

  (art) Made by: Spence, J M 1942-04-01

  image: a destroyer and another warship, both painted in dazzle-style camouflage schemes, are moored near the hilly coastline, which is covered in snow. Three fighter aircraft fly in the sky above.

• Coast Defence Battery : September 1940

  (art) Made by: Freedman, Barnett (CBE) 1940-09-01

  image: A coastal heavy artillery emplacement covered by camouflage netting overlooking the sea, which is visible on the left. The large calibre gun, in the centre left, is also camouflaged with paint in shades of green, brown and yellow. The emplacement...