Place | Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne |
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Accession Number | ART23080 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | sheet: 29.2 x 34.3 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | pencil on paper |
Maker |
Curtis, R Emerson |
Date made | 1940 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
An Australian built aircraft on the assembly line
Description
Portrait of an Australian built aircraft engine on the assembly line, Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory at Fisherman's Bend, Melbourne. In 1940 the artist toured the facility with Wing Commander Wackett and described visiting the foundry where the aircraft parts were poured and cast and the assembly hall. Previously Curtis had visited gun making facilities and he wrote '...more thrilling in design, more beautiful and complex than a gun is the aircraft engine...as lovely as a rose window in a cathedral.'