Drydocked for Painting and Scaling (Giclee Limited Edition of 850) by Edward Wadsworth

This is a high quality Giclée print on 100% photo-rag 308gsm. It depicts British merchant ships being camouflaged, not to make them invisible, but so that German u-boat torpedo gunners would find it harder to determine their course and speed, and so would not be able to sink as many as they had been doing. 

Wadsworth excludes colour and excises all extraneous detail making the forms stronger and starker, and the tones are condensed to an optically more powerful black and white.

Wadsworth’s stunning images of Dazzle Ships’ inspired designer Peter Saville (Roxy Music, New Order etc) who adapted them for his OMD album cover ‘Dazzle Ships’.

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