Accession Number
2008/2.344

Title
Building a Cross Channel Train Ferry

Artist(s)
Sir Muirhead Bone

Artist Nationality
British (modern)

Object Creation Date
1917-1918

Medium & Support
lithograph on paper

Dimensions
19 15/16 in x 24 1/16 in (50.64 cm x 61.12 cm);16 3/8 in x 23 3/4 in (41.59 cm x 60.33 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet

Subject matter
This print is derived from plate one in a set of six lithographs depicting the process of shipbuilding and associated transportation feats. The series was published by P & D Colnaghi & Obach. The scenes, which vary from birds-eye views to more claustrophobic up-close encounters, like this one, in which workers labor on a cross channel train ferry, were recorded by Bone as he observed such work along the River Clyde in Glasgow.

Physical Description
Large, wooden, vertical and horizontal beams frame the left side of this lithograph. They are supporting the sloping, shadowy underside of a large boat's hull, on which many men are performing maintenance and repairs.
Signed verso l.r., with scratch lettering, on stone, "Muirhead Bone"

Primary Object Classification
Print

Primary Object Type
planographic print

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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Keywords
labor
lithographs
riverfronts
rivers
scaffolds
shipbuilding
ships
suites (print groupings)
workplace
world wars