Warship (1940)
Photo: Paul Carter      
© Richard Eurich Paintings

Warship

1940

Pencil on paper
21.6 x 35.6 cm

Private Collection, UK


Official War Artist All Sketches Works | 1940 to 1949 Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports Wartime WW2 sketches

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Recto: Unsigned and undated

Aka: Warship [FAS]; Whitby Trawler in Wartime [REP]

Verso: Collector's reference on storage sleeve: Warship OS7457

Other measurements: 21.6 X 35.6 cm [REP]

England The North Whitby Yorkshire WW2 WWII World War 2 World War II boats trawlers war wartime

This sketch is of a trawler but its title is recorded as "Warship", one of a set of five collected sketches drawn during RE's time as an official War Artist - four titled "Warship" and one titled "The Docks". The sketch may depict a fishing boat used by the Royal Navy but it looks more like a study for RE's painting "Whitby in Wartime" (1940). The breakwater in the sketch matches the one in the painting. See comparison below. RE inscribed the registration number of the boat in this sketch as WY 71 (a Whitby number) and its name as …

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This sketch is of a trawler but its title is recorded as "Warship", one of a set of five collected sketches drawn during RE's time as an official War Artist - four titled "Warship" and one titled "The Docks". The sketch may depict a fishing boat used by the Royal Navy but it looks more like a study for RE's painting "Whitby in Wartime" (1940). The breakwater in the sketch matches the one in the painting. See comparison below. RE inscribed the registration number of the boat in this sketch as WY 71 (a Whitby number) and its name as "Provider".
REP

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Provenance

WITH | [unknown date]

The Fine Art Society

IN COLLECTION | 2016

Private Collection, UK

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Provenance:

  • IN COLLECTION - 2016 - Private Collection, UK

Exhibitions:

  • None recorded.

Notes:

  • [unknown date] - WITH
    The Fine Art Society

Details  

'Warship' (1940)

Warship (1940)
'Warship' (1940)
Image © Richard Eurich Paintings

 

'Whitby in Wartime' (1940), commissioned by the Admiralty as a trial assignment for the position of official war artist.

Whitby in Wartime (1940)
'Whitby in Wartime' (1940), commissioned by the Admiralty as a trial assignment for the position of official war artist.
Image © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1947 (CC BY-NC-ND)

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