Ireland Overnight

Made:
circa 1950
artist:
Claude H Buckle

Oil painting, Ireland Overnight, by Claude Buckle, about 1950. Depicts the passenger ferry TSS Duke of Lancaster crossing the Irish Sea at night, lit by a shaft of moonlight from a cloudy sky. Preparatory painting for British Railways (London Midland Region) poster Ireland Overnight, Dublin via Holyhead/Belfast via Heysham. Signed by the artist at bottom right. Framed and unglazed.

Details

Category:
Pictorial Collection (Railway)
Object Number:
1976-9306
Materials:
oil
Measurements:
overall; frame: 1050 mm x 1317 mm x 18 mm,
overall; image: 980 mm x 1226 mm
type:
painting, oil painting and poster artwork