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In a Large Public Shelter

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photo: British Museum
In a Large Public Shelter
photo: British Museum
photo: British Museum

In a Large Public Shelter

Sketchbook
  • Page 34 from First Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1592
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.34
Mediapencil, wax crayon, coloured crayon, watercolour, wash, pen and ink
Papercream lightweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 181 x 160 mm
Inscription

pencil top of page Large Shelter (P.8)/& series of heads in foreground/In a shelter (half figure in foreground)/IN A LARGE PUBLIC SHELTER

OwnershipThe British Museum, London, bequeathed by Lady Clark
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First Shelter Sketchbook p.34. This is the first sketch Moore made in Tilbury, the largest public shelter in London, located in the basement of a warehouse off Commercial Road, between Whitechapel and Stepney. In the autumn of 1940 it sheltered 8,000 people every night, and once housed as many as 15,000.

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