A Royal Birthday Review (?) on Southsea Common RMG PV1385, William Lionel Wyllie

A Royal Birthday Review (?) on Southsea Common

original art: drawing. This drawing has the received title 'Birthday Review, Portsmouth' (ie a royal birthday review) though not inscribed visibly on it. If that is correct it was probably drawn in the early 1920s, since it is in fact of Southsea Common looking south-west to Spithead, with the naval monument to those of the Navy and Royal Marines lost in the First World War, erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to the design of Sir Robert Lorimer. (Pavilion extensions were added after the Second World War, so it looks different today.) The low fortification on the right is Southsea Castle but the ship with the yellow funnel is not readily identifiable. The review itself is one involving troops of some sort, and the groups shown suggest artillery teams for firing a salute, so other sketches in the collection such as PAD0950,PAD9958, PAD9969 and PAD9975, may have been made on this or a similar occasion. [PvdM 6/13]

prints drawings and watercolours of the royal museums greenwich southsea common william lionel wyllie royal museums greenwich ship great britain british empire first world war wwi second world war wwii world war 2 watercolors

1910 - 1920

Royal Museums Greenwich

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