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Description: | Charles Pears was an official war artist for the admiralty during the First World War. His skills as a marine painter with a strong sense of design are demonstrated in this evocative watercolour.
Numerous searchlights illuminate patches of low cloud over the River Thames, hunting the night sky for German airships on bombing raids over London. Small vessels continue their activities along the river, seemingly oblivious to the threat.
In the first half of the war, airships posed the only real direct threat to London. It was not until 1917, when the German manufacturer Gotha developed a series of heavy bombers, that aeroplanes first bombed London. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Digital image Museum of London | Subjects: | Cityscape London at War Art and Design | Temporal: | 1916 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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