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accession number:	2018.298
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The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals: Building Aircraft: Making the Engine, 1917. Christopher Nevinson (British, 1889–1946). Lithograph on wove paper; image: 40 x 30.1 cm (15 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.); sheet: 50.8 x 38.3 cm (20 x 15 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund 2018.298

title:				Building Aircraft: Making the Engine
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series:				The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals
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creation date:			1917
creation date earliest:		1912
creation date latest:		1922
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creditline:			Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund
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culture:	England, 20th century
technique:	lithograph on wove paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Christopher Nevinson (British, 1889–1946)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 40 x 30.1 cm (15 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.); Sheet: 50.8 x 38.3 cm (20 x 15 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	In graphite at lower right below image: “C.R.W. Nevinson / 1917.”
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	inscription:	In graphite at lower left below image: “22.”
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	inscription:	In graphite at lower left on recto: “14 [?]”
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	inscription:	Stamped in brown (possibly formerly black) at lower right on recto: “Made in England”
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	inscription:	Watermark: on verso at lower left and upper left: “HOLBEIN”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Catherine Burns Fine Art, Berkeley, CA
	date: 2018
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 3, 2018
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Black, Jonathan. “Beauty, Rhythm, Strength: C.R.W. Nevinson as a Printmaker, ca. 1916-32,” in <em>A Dilemma of English Modernism: Visual and Verbal Politics in the Life and Work of C.R.W. Nevinson (1889-1946)</em>, ed. Michael J.K. Walsh (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007)
	page number: 	p. 118
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	Black, Jonathan, and C. R. W. Nevinson. C.R.W. Nevinson: The Complete Prints. 2014.
	page number: 	p. 26, 120-121, no. 166, ill
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	Black, Jonathan. “’The Human Element’: The Contribution of C.R.W. Nevinson and Eric Kennington to the <em>Britain’s Efforts and Ideals</em> Lithographic Project of 1917,” in <em>Burning Bright: Essays in Honor of David Bindman</em>, ed. Diana Dethloff, Tessa Murdoch, Kim Sloan, and Caroline Elam (London: University College London Press, 2015)
	page number: 	p. 234-242, ill. p. 238
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	Great Britain, and Christian Brinton. War Paintings &amp; Drawings by British Artists, Exhibited Under the Auspices of the Ministry of Information, London. [New York]: [Redfield-Kendrick-Odell Company, Inc.], 1919.
	page number: 	p. 46, no. 121, ill. p. 127
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	C.R.W. Nevinson: The Twentieth Century, and Richard Ingleby. C.R.W. Nevinson, the Twentieth Century. London: Merrell Holberton in association with the Imperial War Museum, 1999.
	page number: 	p. 56, no. 57, ill. p. 115
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	Ackley, Clifford S., and Stephen Coppel. Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints, 1914-1939. Boston: MFA Publications, 2008.
	page number: 	p. 132, 217, no. 73, ill. p. 137
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IMAGES

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