Mounting a Great Gun

Lithographic print of original charcoal drawing ‘Mounting a Great Gun’ by artist Sir David Muirhead Bone. Published in a series in 1917, it was originally executed in 1916.

This print forms part of a green paper folder of an “edition de luxe” of signed proofs: 10 prints made from the War Drawings of Muirhead Bone, part two.

Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) was a Scottish watercolourist and etcher. He was known for his depictions of wartime industrial and architectural settings. He was on the advisory committees for the British War Memorials during the First World War and the War Artists Advisory panel during the Second World War.

Object Summary

Accession Loan No.
50/1918/2/19
Category
Fine Art
Collection Class
Prints
Medium
lithograph on paper
Common Name
Mounting a Great Gun
Simple Name
print
Inscription Transcription
Bone ; Muirhead Bone; MB
Period Classification
World War I (1914-1918)
Production Town
; London; London
Production Country
; United Kingdom: England; United Kingdom: England
Production Person Initials
Sir David Muirhead; ; George
Production Person Surname
Bone; Country Life Ltd; Newnes Ltd
Production Year Low
1917
Production Year High
1917

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Mounting a Great Gun