Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in England, reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British government . XXXVIIBUILDING THE GREAT TURRET XXXVII BUILDING THE GREAT TURRET STORY above story, all glass and iron, rises theshop where the great turrets are built, and belowthe floor in deep pits their bases stand. This is theother end of the shop in the previous picture. Theopen part of the turret made a design—the Pediment ofWar and Labour. Here was the Greek idea carried outby British workmen, and no Brit
Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in England, reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British government . XXXVIIBUILDING THE GREAT TURRET XXXVII BUILDING THE GREAT TURRET STORY above story, all glass and iron, rises theshop where the great turrets are built, and belowthe floor in deep pits their bases stand. This is theother end of the shop in the previous picture. Theopen part of the turret made a design—the Pediment ofWar and Labour. Here was the Greek idea carried outby British workmen, and no British artist has ever seenit. It was left to me. But from something of this sortin Greece, Greek artists got their scheme of decorationwhen they were building their XXXVIIIFITTING GUNS IN TURRETS XXXVIII FITTING GUNS IN TURRETS I SAW these smaller guns being fitted in a turretin another shop. They are put in and then theturret is tried. When I saw it the whole floor wascovered with parts : it was like a watchmakers tablemagnified a million times. The parts were all behindme and the authorities did not seem to want me todraw them. This is the same subject that I found atEssen but very different. !*£sfc -Jtite iJm-Wte*^. - IP fl t phst rSI ? ??: i ; ^ „... 11 i—i —? i, ,i. ^--,mjf* g ^-^ *>i»_ n,™w ? ?-•• ?? ?St* ~<SG£ss<-£L^ 3:.- Vf XXXIX THE SHOPS AT NIGHT. CHANGINGSHIFTS XXXIX THE SHOPS AT NIGHT. CHANGINGSHIFTS BLACK was the bridge, black the crowd crossingit, black the crowded trams. The blue-white lightglowed from the ever-working shops, and the lights uponthe cranes by the river-side, and on the railroad tracks,suggested the workscape by their ever winking, twinklinglines and groups and dot
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