Interior of a Murphy Radio
1942
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1942
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Interior of a Murphy Radio is a 1942 by Maria Luiza de Azevedo Amaral, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows the inside of a radio, with its metal parts laid out flat. You can see tubes, knobs, a dial marked with numbers, and wires. The drawing looks like it was made with quick, precise lines. The radio’s parts are labeled with terms like "home" and "forces," hinting at how it was tuned. The artist focused on the mechanical side of the radio, not the outside. Check out cross-hatching to see how artists create shading with lines.
A technical drawing by Maria Luiza de Azevedo Amaral from 1942 depicts a perspective view of the interior of a Murphy Radio, accompanied by a sketch on the reverse labeled "effect of inductance" alongside additional technical annotations. Created during her wartime role as a technical illustrator for Murphy Radio, the work reflects the period's focus on radio mechanics and wartime production.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Maria spent the 1940s sketching radios in her Rio living room, wires tangled like vines across the desk, every knob and dial a little landscape.
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