Catalogue description PORTRAITS: Nine colour portraits of: Admiral Lord Mountbatten; General Auchinleck;...

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Details of INF 3/77
Reference: INF 3/77
Description:

PORTRAITS: Nine colour portraits of: Admiral Lord Mountbatten; General Auchinleck; General Eisenhower; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham; Admiral Sir James Somerville; Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder; General Marshal; General R E Laycock; Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris.

Artist: Tim [William Timym] (signed).

Media/Technique: All nine portraits are executed in soft coloured pastels.

Other media/information: The nine originally constituted one artwork but in the 1980s were sewn as individual portraits into a small booklet. The six are now separately housed in Fome-Cor frames but retain the item number 77 to show they were originally the same document. Tim created four such colour pastel portrait series for the INF 3 series: INF 3/75 (Six portraits) INF 3/76 (Six portraits) INF 3/77 (Nine portraits) and INF 3/78 (Nine portraits).
Date: 1939-1946
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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