Artwork
Royal York Crescent, Bristol
Royal York Crescent, Bristol is a watercolor work on paper by the Social Realist artist Ginger. It dates from 1942 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Overview
A watercolour by Ginger from 1942 depicts Royal York Crescent in Clifton, Bristol, showing the elevated terrace of Georgian houses viewed from below, with steps rising in the left foreground and the curved row of buildings extending into the distance, flanked by trees on the right. The work was produced for the Recording Britain project, a wartime initiative led by Sir Kenneth Clark that employed artists to document places and landscapes across England, Wales, and Scotland between 1940 and 1943. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust, the scheme aimed to preserve a visual record of sites perceived as vulnerable to bomb damage, urban change, or rural decline during the Second World War.
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