Lithograph of H.M.S. Repulse, World War I

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Signed proof lithograph entitled 'A Gun Turret of HMS Repulse, Firth of Forth, March 1917', by Muirhead Bone.

The artist was the the first official British war artist, appointed in 1916. His depictions of wartime people and places were published monthly in 'Country Life'.

Sir David Muirhead Bone was born in Partick, Glasgow, in 1876 and died in 1953.

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• Online ID: 000-000-100-317-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Thistle at War
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1998.65
• Date: 1914 - 1918
  1917
  
• Material: Paper
  Print / lithograph
  
• Dimensions: 255 mm H x 400 mm W
  
• What: Print / lithograph
  
• Subject: Prints
  
• Who: H.M.S. Repulse
  Royal Navy (N)
  Sir Muirhead Bone (delineator)
  
• Where: Scotland, Firth of Forth (depicted)
  
• Event: World War I
  
• Description: Royal Navy - Signed proof lithograph entitled `A Gun Turret of HMS Repulse, Firth of Forth, March 1917`, by Sir Muirhead Bone.
  
• References:
  • McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh: NMS, 1997 
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