Bill Brandt, 1904–1983, British, Crowded Improvised Air Raid Shelter in Liverpool Street Tube Tunnel, 1940
- Title:
- Crowded Improvised Air Raid Shelter in Liverpool Street Tube Tunnel
- Former Title(s):
- Crowded Improvised Air Raid Shelter in Liverpool Tube Tunnel
- Date:
- 1940
- Materials & Techniques:
- Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, gloss photographic paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, white card
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 20 x 15 15/16 inches (50.8 x 40.5 cm), Sheet: 13 1/2 x 11 1/2in. (34.3 x 29.2cm), Image: 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (34.3 x 29.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left on back: "PH" (encircled); inscribed in graphite, lower left to lower right on back: "BRANDT / CRowed [sic] Improvised Air-Raid Shelter in LIVerpool Tube Tunnel / p 52 SL"
Signed in black ink, lower right below image: "Bill Brandt"; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Parnassus Foundation, courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B2004.8.2
- Classification:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- advertisements | architectural subject | blankets | bodies | bombs | bottle | children | cityscape | clock | crowding | genre subject | historical subject | iron | night | platform | shelter | sleeping | steel | subway | trains | tunnel | wall | war
- Associated Places:
- City of London | England | Europe | Greater London | London | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:54387
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