Edward Ardizzone

On a Fortified Island, the Night Watch

1941

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Artist: Edward Ardizzone 1900–1979
Medium: Watercolour and ink on paper
Dimensions: Support: 273 × 349 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
Reference: N05672

Catalogue entry

N05672 ON A FORTIFIED ISLAND, THE NIGHT WATCH 1941

Not inscribed.
Watercolour, pen and ink (sight), 10 3/4×13 3/4 (26·5×25).
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh: National War Pictures, provincial galleries and National Gallery, 1945 (no catalogue).
Repr: William Coldstream, War Pictures by British Artists: Second Series: Soldiers, 1943, pl.25; Eric Newton, War through Artists' Eyes, 1945, p.16.

The artist explained (letter of 7 October 1959) that ‘the island was Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth. It was heavily fortified and armed with a battery of large guns in concrete emplacements.’

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I