Tuner for a Murphy Radio
1942
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1942
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Tuner for a Murphy Radio is a 1942 by Maria Luiza de Azevedo Amaral, depicting Inkwell, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a small, mechanical device with wheels, gears, and a long lever on top. The drawing is in black ink, with some parts outlined and others filled in with cross-hatching. There’s a flat base with circles and lines that look like holes or slots. The artist focused on how the parts fit together, almost like a blueprint. Notice the inkwell in the corner—it suggests this might have been drawn by hand while working. If you like this kind of precise drawing, check out cross-hatching next.
A technical drawing by Maria Luiza de Azevedo Amaral depicts a perspective view of a tuner mechanism for a Murphy Radio, created while she worked as a technical illustrator during her wartime service from 1942 to 1945.
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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