The marvel of Mulberry: Normandy landing, June 1944
Oil painting on paper, showing the towing of the Mulberry Harbour units across the Channel following the D-Day invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Although the direct media support is paper this was exhibited in the former 20th-century Seapower gallery as a normal oil, framed backed and glazed.
Object Details
| ID: | BHC0688 |
|---|---|
| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Painting |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Pears, Charles |
| Events: | World War II: Normandy Landings, 1944 |
| Date made: | Mid 20th century |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund. Reproduced with kind permission of The Royal Society of Marine Artists. |
| Measurements: | Painting: 318 mm x 533 mm; Frame: 441 x 588 x 45 mm |