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Study for the Great Gantry, Charing Cross
1907
David Muirhead Bone (1876 - 1953)
Width: 33.3 cm; Height: 26.2 cm;
Inscription
Inscription, Study for the Great Gantry Charing
Cross. / Muirhead Bone 1907 //
Acquisition (source, method, date)
Welsford, Rhoda (Miss); bequest; 1976
D.1976.XX.11
About this work
Trained as an architect, Muirhead Bone was Britain’s first official war artist on the Western Front during the First World War. He began his artistic career strolling London’s streets at night, sketching the city’s architecture enveloped in inky blackness. This highly-worked drawing, executed with a restricted palette, depicts the gantry of Charing Cross encased in a web of ropes and scaffolding, smoke and dust. Human figures and locomotives appear minuscule against the backdrop of this yawning structure.
(Permanent collection label)
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Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London/the estate of the artist
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