Framed
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Harpers Weekly cover, December 31, 1910
Cover illustration by Harry Grant Dart for magazine The All-Story, October 1908
Location: World War I art
Artist:
Harry Grant Dart
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Epic scene! The fact the battle is at night and you still have so much detail is impressive.
Cutting-edge stuff for 1910. Great add!
Fantastic addition to your collection Peter!!! Seeing you hold it up on the show was wild...such a huge size and all framed up!!! Congrats on scoring this 1910 gem!
Very nice old school (115 years old!! wow, really old school!) magazine illustration, and damn that's a massive piece! It looks amazing presented in that frame, enjoy it for years to come - congrats Peter!
Does tieing cannolis to balloons and releasing them count as bombing? Asking for a friend.
A great history lesson accompanies this of early aviation and what destructive potential it holds. The ships are powerless to defend against something this new that brings death from above. It's painted in such an advanced manner as well with these sharp focused linework and fantastic texture of the tides. The plane designs might as well have been from aliens with how advanced they look.
A magnificent scene which appears of its time, yet simultaneously modern and futuristic! Having taken a closer, longer look at it, I know see that the ship otself does look somewhat older than it appeared at first glance, as I hadn't initially noticed that it had three of those chimney stacks. Still, the shape of the bow still looks way too modern for it's time, which I suppose adds to the feeling of futurism after you look up and see the type of aircraft that are flying around! So great to know you won this and even greater to see how giddy and excited you were to show it to everyone live on Sunday! So much fun! Kudos, Peter!
Thanks, Rubén! It was fun showing it during the show Sunday! Excellent observations about the ships! Your comments prompted me to take a close look at warships of that era. Bow does look a bit more advanced for the time. It's a bit more shaped than the famous, advanced HMS Dreadnought's, which was launched in 1906. I was surprised to see warships with two or three smokestacks of that height. And I just noticed the cool figure on the upper right plane's scaffolding!
Cool, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself and it really was a lot of fun getting to revel in the joy we all saw you experiencing! Glad you could confirm that the bow does appear to be afvanced for 1910. It's funny you mention the figure in the plane, as that was actually something I noticed quickly the first time I saw the piece. The reason being that once I noticed how odd looking those planes were, I wanted to know how they were piloted, so I was purposely looking to see if either of the pilots were visible. Man, those searchlights are fantastic and one of the coolest things that adds the drama to the scene is that the camera is placed less than a hundred yards from the ship and only inches above the surface of the water, almost as if we're stealthily coming up to the surface in a sub. Too cool!
Congrats to finding this piece! It's a perfect ad$ to your collection!
That is INSANE! IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
beautiful piece buddy, sorry for delay comment, this must look so good on the wall
Thanks, Tom!
beautiful piece buddy, sorry for delay comment, this must look so good on the wall
Wow, if ever there was wall-worthy and awe inspiring, this piece is it! What a visionary futurist, big congrats!