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This lithograph was published by the National Gallery and the Ministry of Information after an original watercolour by Paul Nash from his series ‘Aerial Creatures’, commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC) for the Air Ministry in 1940 (LD825 - Astley Hall Art Gallery). In this series of works, he developed ideas about the ‘personalities of planes', suggesting that machines – aircraft – were the ‘real protagonists’ of the war. Later, in an essay on the subject, he equated the Hampden bomber, often used at night, with a pterodactyl ascending into the sunset. Nash's imaginative outlook dissatisfied the Air Ministry, which preferred subjects that specifically celebrated the RAF, and it terminated Nash’s contract.
Title
Moonlight Voyage: Hampden Flying
Date
1940
Medium
lithograph
Accession number
FA01315