'The German fleet in the Forth'
A charming original drawing, inscribed by Wyllie as title, at the bottom, showing four miniature warships cut out as wooden profiles, on wooden floats, in tow in line ahead on a light cord, with seabirds sketched in above. The ship profiles are not recognizable so the models are probably just toys for the artist's family (perhaps his grandchildren), sketched in a late-afternoon or summer evening light. It may be a post-war drawing with the toys re-enacting the entry of the German High Seas Fleet in the Forth for internment in 1918, and not necessarily done there specifically, although it was a place where Wyllie had enjoyed family holidays before the war. The gulls wheeling above the model ships here mirror a motif Wyllie uses elsewhere suggesting peace and nature reasserting itself after the intrusion of war: see for example PAE0057.
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Object Details
ID: | PAD9893 |
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Collection: | Fine art |
Type: | Drawing |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Wyllie, William Lionel |
Date made: | After 1918 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
Measurements: | 360 mm x 257 mm |