Title from caption on object: “Churchill Ignores Raid Warning”

August 24, 1940

Captain William G. Horton

Artist, British, 1893 - 1961

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.4 × 15.5 cm (8 7/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 22.8 × 18.1 cm (9 × 7 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.321

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite on applied paper: Churchill; upper right: 2; center printed in black ink on applied paper: 7368 / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / CHURCHILL IGNORES RAID WARNING / PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL [circled in graphite] (RIGHT) / LEAVES A SMALL HOTEL AT RAMSGATE WHICH / HAD BEEN WRECKED BY A BOMB AN HOUR OR / TWO EARLIER, ACCORDING TO THE BRITISH / CAPTION, WHICH ADDS THAT HE CONTINUED / TO INSPECT AIR RAID DAMAGE AT RAMS- / GATE AND DOVER UNPERTURBED DESPITE / ALMOST CONTINUOUS AIR RAID WARNINGS. / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO / AW 9-5-40 APGB 938PED / ABC BAIRES TRIN TRUJ AHORA / ZZ RIO MONT BER MEX 60

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