Cartoon for transport mural (Airship II)

Place Europe: United Kingdom
Accession Number ART28517
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 31.6 cm x 41.6 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description gouache and pencil on paper on card
Maker Millen, M J
Place made United Kingdom
Date made c 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: External copyright

Description

Depicts a mural design by that was originally commissioned as a decoaration for the Australian Air Base at Lincoln, Great Britain. The air base was RAF Binbrook from which 460 Squadron (RAAF) flew Lancasters during the Second World War. This mural design is one of 72 by Merial Joyce Millen, part of a series of 'decorations showing transport by land, sea and air' intended for murals to decorate the messes and buildings at the air base.