Exeter Cathedral after the Blitz
Olive Wharry was an artist and suffragette and active in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1910-1914. This view is of the Cathedral from the South Street area and shows bomb damaged buildings in the foreground. The Cathedral was bombed on 4 May,1942. Following her time with the WSPU she moved to Devon, where she remained until her death in 1947.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 63/2004/5
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Common Name
- Exeter Cathedral after the Blitz
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Inscription Transcription
- O Wharry; 5
- Period Classification
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- c 1942
- Production Person Initials
- Olive
- Production Person Surname
- Wharry
- Production Year Low
- 1942
- Production Year High
- 1943
