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war artist's painting of woman on lathe

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I just happened to be trolling through some paintings by British artists ( like you do) when I came across this painting by the British artist Laura Knight depicting a woman on a lathe . Anyone care to identify the machine she is using ? .

Steve
 
tracerman":1lqu8wr2 said:
I just happened to be trolling through some paintings by British artists ( like you do) when I came across this painting by the British artist Laura Knight depicting a woman on a lathe . Anyone care to identify the machine she is using ? .

Steve
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Her work is very clean...certainly unsullied by any actual paint :-)
 
Not easy to link to images on that site. is this the one you mean?

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no idea what the lathe is but it's a dam nice one :-)
 
And big - going by the size of the bed?

During the war my Mum used to paint Fire Engines - doing her bit for King and Country. [emoji3]

Rod
 
Robert , yes that's the picture - as a wood-be painter the first thing I thought of was that , considering the assumed accuracy , the artist was working from a photo . I think she has captured the feeling of the "great British cast iron bloody heavy " genre . The second thing I thought was the operator is not wearing eye protection , and those internal callipers look to about to fall down into the bed .

Perhaps I need to get out more .

Steve
 
I'm not sure elf n safety had been invented then :-)
 
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