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The Chamber, The House Of Commons, 1942 (watercolour, wax, crayon on paper)

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IWM7352092
Image title
The Chamber, The House Of Commons, 1942 (watercolour, wax, crayon on paper)
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Artist
Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (1895-1982) / English
Location
Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Medium
watercolour, wax, crayon on paper
Date
1942 AD (C20th AD)
Dimensions
77.1x111 cms
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Creator: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (1895-1982) A bomb-damaged House of Commons in Westminster after an air raid, London, 1942. In the courtyard, workers load wooden beams onto the back of a truck while other workers repair a roofless Commons chamber. Roland Vivian Pitchforth trained at Leeds College of Art before serving in the First World War, where he damaged his hearing. As an official war artist during the Second World War he travelled to Gibraltar, Burma (Myanmar) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and documented the London Blitz.

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20th century / England / United Kingdom / Europe / 1940s / architecture / art / bombardment / colour / drawing / destruction / Second World War (1939-1945) / war / government / London / parliament / painting / ruin / cityscape / watercolour / war effort / air battle / battle / city / mzdrawing / mzpainting / the Blitz / superhighres
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