Details
| Digital Media Bank ID: | 27944 |
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| Original Filename: | dmas_fa101825_d02.jpg |
| Description: | Walrus and Dinghy. Watercolour by Eric Ravilious, 1941. Shows a seaplane taking off by the water's edge, with a small boat in the foreground. |
| Categories: | Timeline/ World War Two (1939-1945), Collections/ Fine Art, Timeline/ 1940s |
| Credit: | Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove |
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| Licence: | Public Domain / CC0 |
| Type (of Object or Artwork): | Watercolour Painting |
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| Title (of Artwork / Object): | Walrus and Dinghy |
| Creator (of Artwork / Object): | Eric Ravilious |
| Date Created (of Object / Artwork): | 1941 |
| Description (Object or Artwork): | This painting by Ravilious a seaplane prepares to take off by the water's edge. A dinghy can be seen in the right foreground. Eric Ravilious was an English painter, wood-engraver and designer. He was educated at Eastbourne School of Art in the early 20th century. In 1939 he started working as a war artist in northern waters and his limited use of colours, pale greys, white and blue, captures the sense of thin air and cold seas. His images stress the ordinariness of war rather than its glamour or heroicism. He died whilst observing a rescue mission at sea. |
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| Media: | Image |
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| Size: | 1.32 MB; 2316 x 1890 pixels; 196 x 160 mm (print at 300 DPI); |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Linked Accession no.: | FA101825 |
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