Fighting vessels and dazzle-painted merchant vessels at sea
Medium includes wash and watercolour. Two sketches on a single sheet, with the warships above of which the largest (on the right) may be an R-class battleship. The group below are merchant vessels, though the largest may be a minelayer conversion, armed with a bow gun, and with the letter 'B' designating the blue colour stripes on the hull though it has not been possible to identify any ship using this camouflage pattern. The only clue as to possible location is a cliff outline on the lower sketch to the right, which might be the North Foreland, or one of the other east Kent headlands.
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Object Details
ID: | PAD9882 |
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Collection: | Fine art |
Type: | Drawing |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Wyllie, William Lionel |
Vessels: | Lepanto (1915) |
Date made: | 1914-18; 1914-1918 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
Measurements: | 253 mm x 354 mm |
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