Description
Object description
Large paintings ('The Circumcision' by Marco Marziale, National Gallery cat no 803, is identifiable) are carried out of door of Pritchard-Jones Hall, Bangor University, and loaded onto LMS lorry. The door of lorry is sealed up. The lorry journeys along country roads, negotiates the low narrow bridge under the railway at Ffestiniog and arrives at the specially enlarged entrance of Manod Quarry. At Pritchard-Jones Hall a second lorry is loaded with paintings (a Madonna and Child by Bonifazio di Pitati, National Gallery cat no 1202, is identifiable) and makes the same trip to the mine. A very large packing case containing van Dyck's 'Charles I on Horseback' is loaded on to an LMS low-loader truck at Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, another temporary store for the Gallery's paintings. The truck is guided cautiously through the gate of the building and proceeds along the same route to the mine, having particular difficulty at the low bridge where the rear of the truck has to be manhandled round. The load is backed carefully into the mine. Inside, a second large packing case is pushed along a narrow gauge railway into the depths of the mine.
Full description
Large paintings ('The Circumcision' by Marco Marziale, National Gallery cat no 803, is identifiable) are carried out of door of Pritchard-Jones Hall, Bangor University, and loaded onto LMS lorry. The door of lorry is sealed up. The lorry journeys along country roads, negotiates the low narrow bridge under the railway at Ffestiniog and arrives at the specially enlarged entrance of Manod Quarry. At Pritchard-Jones Hall a second lorry is loaded with paintings (a Madonna and Child by Bonifazio di Pitati, National Gallery cat no 1202, is identifiable) and makes the same trip to the mine. A very large packing case containing van Dyck's 'Charles I on Horseback' is loaded on to an LMS low-loader truck at Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, another temporary store for the Gallery's paintings. The truck is guided cautiously through the gate of the building and proceeds along the same route to the mine, having particular difficulty at the low bridge where the rear of the truck has to be manhandled round. The load is backed carefully into the mine. Inside, a second large packing case is pushed along a narrow gauge railway into the depths of the mine.
