'The Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow'
Signed by the artist, lower left, this bird's-eye view of Scapa Flow as reproduced in colour in his co-authored book 'More Sea Fights of the Great War' (1919), f. p. 24, under the title given here. The colour plate has a printed key in its margins of places shown. Down the left edge from centre to bottom: Long Hope, Gutter Sound [sic], Fara, Weddel Sound, Flotta, Calf of Flotta (the islet lower left). Across the top from centre to centre right: Island of Hoy [aand below this] Rica, Cava, Ward Hill. Down the right edge from centre: Hoy Sound, Graemsay, Bring Deeps, Houton, The Barrel of Butter (the lowest islet shown).
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Object Details
ID: | PAF1756 |
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Collection: | Fine art |
Type: | Drawing |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Wyllie, William Lionel |
Places: | Unlinked place |
Date made: | circa 1918 |
People: | British Fleet |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
Measurements: | Sheet: 295 x 478 mm |