“Gunnery (on Admiralty Arch)” by Thomas Brock (original) (raw)

Gunnery

Thomas Brock

1908-1913

Admiralty Arch

Note how the allegorical figure lovingly cradles a cannon barrel. Unconsciously or not, Brock seems to have adopted the pose of mother and child best known from representations of Mary and the infant Jesus.

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• Admiralty Arch
• Location of Gunnery
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Photograph by Robert Freidus

Formatting, text, and perspective correction by George P. Landow.

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