Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Bill Brandt, 1904–1983, British
Title:
People Sheltering in the Tube, Elephant and Castle Underground Station, circa 1939
Date:
ca. 1939
Materials & Techniques:
Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, gloss photographic paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, white card
Dimensions:
Mount: 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left on back: "People sheltering in The tube"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Parnassus Foundation, courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B2004.8.3
Classification:
Photographs
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | bodies | sleeping | advertisements | posters | signs | historical subject | blankets | tunnel | clock | bombs | genre subject | cityscape | perspective | night | crowding | line | platform | trains | subway | tracks | shelter | war
Associated Places:
Europe | England | United Kingdom | Greater London | London | Lambeth
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Martina Droth, Bill Brant Henry Moore, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, p. 108, no. 103, N72 .P5 +B55 2020 (LC)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:54388