File:Battle of Britain (Paul Nash).png
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Paul Nash: Battle of Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q727643 |
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Title |
Battle of Britain label QS:Len,"Battle of Britain"
label QS:Lpl,"Bitwa o Anglię" |
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | landscape art | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: The painting is an attempt to give the sense of an aerial battle in operation over a wide area and thus summarises England's great aerial victory over Germany. The scene includes certain elements constant during the Battle of Britain - the river winding from the town and across parched country, down to the sea; beyond, the shores of the Continent, above, the mounting cumulus concentrating at sunset after a hot brilliant day; across the spaces of sky, trails of airplanes, smoke tracks of dead or damaged machines falling, floating clouds, parachutes, balloons. Against the approaching twilight new formations of Luftwaffe, threatening... |
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Date |
1941 date QS:P571,+1941-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q749808
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Source/Photographer | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20102 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. |
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