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Paul Nash: Battle of Britain  wikidata:Q97357937 reasonator:Q97357937
Artist
Paul Nash  (1889–1946)  wikidata:Q727643 q:en:Paul Nash (artist)
 
Paul Nash
Alternative names
Nash
Description British painter, illustrator, printmaker, designer, photographer and artist
Date of birth/death 11 May 1889 Edit this at Wikidata 11 July 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kensington Edit this at Wikidata Boscombe Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1912 Edit this at Wikidata–1945 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
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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"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre landscape painting Edit this at Wikidata
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...
Date 1941
date QS:P571,+1941-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q749808
Source/Photographer http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20102
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