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Bill Brandt, 1904–1983, British, People Sheltering in the Tube, Elephant and Castle Underground Station, circa 1939, ca. 1939
- Title:
People Sheltering in the Tube, Elephant and Castle Underground Station, circa 1939
- Former Title(s):
People Sheltering in the Tube, Elephant and Castle Underground Station, ca. 1939
- Date:
- ca. 1939
- Medium:
- Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, gloss photographic paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, white card
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm), Sheet: 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (34.3 x 29.2 cm), 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: "People sheltering in The tube"
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:
- B2004.8.3
- Classification:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- advertisements | architectural subject | blankets | bodies | bombs | cityscape | clock | crowding | genre subject | historical subject | line | night | perspective | platform | posters | shelter | signs | sleeping | subway | tracks | trains | tunnel | war
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Greater London | Lambeth | London | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:54388
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Martina Droth, Bill Brant Henry Moore, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, p. 108, no. 103, N72 .P5 +B55 2020 (LC) [ORBIS]
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