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Muirhead Bone was the first appointed official war artist. As one of Britain’s leading draughtsmen, he was renowned for the almost photographic detail he achieved in his drawings. As well as recording the war on the Front, Bone spent time on the Clyde in Scotland, documenting shipbuilding. He sketched with a notebook strapped to his hand. These prints show different stages in the building, as well as views of the yard, one from the top of a crane. One journalist wrote that his series, ‘delights in the intricacies of scaffolding and mechanical contrivances’. These images were also published in a War Office publication, ‘The Western Front’, Vol. II, in 1917. This work forms part of the portfolio ‘The Great War: Britain’s Efforts and Ideals’, a series of 66 lithographic prints commissioned by the Ministry of Information in 1917.
National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery
Title
A Fitting-Out Basin
Date
1917
Medium
lithograph on paper
Measurements
H 50.6 x W 40.4 cm
Accession number
NMW A 13186
Acquisition method
gift from H. M. Ministry of Information, 1919
Work type