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Description: | This 1931 print records the riverside site at Lambeth, which 20 years later in 1951 was transformed into the South Bank Exhibition of the Festival of Britain. The vertical feature on the site at this period was the Shot Tower, built in 1826 to manufacture lead shot for guns by dropping molten metal from a height.
The tower was one of the few old industrial structures incorporated into the festival exhibition, where it served as a lighthouse and a radio beacon. It was demolished in 1962.
Robins was one of the many skilled etchers at work in London during the early 20th century. By the 1930s, he was teaching at Central School of Arts and Design and was a council member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, where he remained for 41 years. Between 1912 and 1938, Robins produced about 160 etchings and some aquatints, woodcuts and lithographs. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Digital image Museum of London | Subjects: | Cityscape Art and Design | Temporal: | 1931 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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