- Artist
- Ambrose McEvoy 1877–1927
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 762 × 1270 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Department of Overseas Trade 1927
- Reference
- N04230
Catalogue entry
N04230 THE SEARCHLIGHT TATTOO, WEMBLEY 1925
Not inscribed.
Canvas, 30×50 (76·5×127).
Presented by the Department of Overseas Trade 1927.
Exh: R.A., 1926 (134), as ‘The Tattoo’; R.A., Late Members, winter 1928 (510), as painted in 1925.
The tattoo was held during the Empire Exhibition at Wembley 1924–5.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II