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Muirhead Bone
Building Ships: A Shipyard (from The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals), ca 1917
Undaunted by the challenge of illustrating the orchestrated labors of construction sites, Bones uses his signature precision to capture the dynamic industrial activities of a Royal Navy shipyard.
Prior to the war, Bone sketched monumental English architecture in various states, from the pristine to the demolished. This highly regarded body of work earned Bone his nickname -- the "London Piranesi," after Italian architect and printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Piranesi produced a series of etchings that depicted the ancient monuments of Rome, such as the Arch of Titus (shown below), in overwhelming grandiosity and splendor despite their ruined state. |