The Return: Hampdens Coming Home at Dawn
Summary
An airfield landscape. Control tower to the left, corner of runway to the bottom left. One plane on the ground to the centre, facing away from the viewer; a second one in the air above the control tower, flying toward the viewer. The planes have two propellers. The Hampden was a bomb carrying plane. It was relatively fast and could carry a very large load, but it had meagre defences, so it was mainly used as a night bomber. private: verso - pencil drawing of a plane similar to those on the recto.
Object Name
The Return: Hampdens Coming Home at Dawn
Creators Name
Date Created
1940
Dimensions
support: 40cm x 57.6cm
accession number
1947.435
Collection Group
Place of creation
England
Support
paper
Medium
watercolour
chalk
pencil
Catalogue Raisonne
Andrew Causey, Paul Nash, Oxford, 1980
Credit
Gift of H.M. Government War Artists' Advisory Committee.
Legal
© transferred to MCGs from the War Artists Advisory Committee, Ministry of Information (1947)
