The Great Britain (Signed) (Original)

Artist: K A Evans
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 11" x 13" (275mm x 340mm)
Date: 1969
Signature: Signed by artist lower right
Code: EvansGBLL

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by K A Evans.

The SS Great Britain, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, although a very advanced ship for it's time, also had a very chequered history. It was hoped that the ship would be rescued from where she was scuttled in the Falkland Islands.

The very next year Sir Jack Hayward fronted the money to do just that and the ship was returned to Bristol to act as a museum, the port she had been built in 127 years earlier.

This is explained in the feature printed in Look and Learn issue 374, 15th March 1969.