Home Guard: Protective Covering
One of a set of fourteen watercolours of the Home Guard
Date: 1942
Inscriptions: ll: Gilbert Spencer 1942. Inscribed: It is urged on all ranks to make the fullest use of local conditions when adopting protective covering
Tags: War, Pencil, Pen, Watercolour, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
Height (mm): 563
Width (mm): 767
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Artists International Association, 84 Charlotte Street, London W1, March 1944 (14), illus; Bristol 1950; Grasmere 1987 (147), illus; Abbot Hall 2024
Provenance: Gillian Spencer, by descent; Liss Llewellyn.
Literature: Spencer 1974 pp. 138-9; Gough 2024 pp. 250-3, illus. p. 251
Date: 1942
Inscriptions: ll: Gilbert Spencer 1942. Inscribed: It is urged on all ranks to make the fullest use of local conditions when adopting protective covering
Tags: War, Pencil, Pen, Watercolour, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
Height (mm): 563
Width (mm): 767
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Artists International Association, 84 Charlotte Street, London W1, March 1944 (14), illus; Bristol 1950; Grasmere 1987 (147), illus; Abbot Hall 2024
Provenance: Gillian Spencer, by descent; Liss Llewellyn.
Literature: Spencer 1974 pp. 138-9; Gough 2024 pp. 250-3, illus. p. 251