The Fleet That Blundered (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 13" x 16" (335mm x 410mm)
Date: 1980
Code: GreenFishing
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.
The "Battle of Dogger Bank" occurred when a convoy of the Russian Fleet mistook British shipping boats for Japanese torpedo boats and ended firing on both them and each other.
This fiasco took place on the night of 22nd November 1904. Vice-Admiral Rozhestvensky the Russian commander is shown.
- Artist Biography
Harry Green (born 1920; UK)
A little-known artist, Harry Green contributed extensively to Look and Learn in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrating a variety of subjects ranging from historical buildings to football. However, it was as a transport illustrator that he really made his mark in the 1980 with the series "Britain's Railway Wonders". Green also contributed illustrations to Speed & Power in the 1970s.
His book illustrations include Architecture (1969), Architecture: The Great Art of Building (1969), Discovery of Australia (1969) and Discovery of South America (1970), some of which were jointly illustrated by Gwen Green who was also a prolific children's educational book illustrator.
Source: From biographical notes by Steve Holland