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The Munition Girls Collection: SCM - Art Object Name: oil painting Maker: Forbes, Stanhope Alexander Place Made: England, United Kingdom Date Made: 1918 Materials: oil paint on canvas; gilt Measurements: frame: 1320 mm x 1520 mm x 85 mm; image: 1030 mm x 1270 mm |
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Description: Painting, [The Munition Girls] / by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, 1918. Oil on canvas; 40x 50" or 103x127cm, in decorative gilt frame 132x152x8.5cm. Signed and dated bottom left. Female operatives making 4.5-inch shells at the Kilnhurst Steel Works of John Baker and Co. Ltd., Rotherham; steel billets are re-heated in a separate furnace and, still glowing, moved by hand to a steam hydraulic press for forging. Mr. George Baker commissioned this scene "to produce a memento for our women workers, and each of them received a framed copy of it". Credit Line: Purchased with the support of the National Heritage Memorial Fund |
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| John Baker and Company Limited 1874-1966, steelmakers; munitions makers, English; British | |
| Forbes, Stanhope Alexander 1857-1947, artist, Irish; British | |
| Baker, George active 1918, owner of Kilnhurst steelworks, British | |
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