The former german battleship 'baden', listing and under fire as a gunnery target on the dean sand, spithead, 1921
signed by the artist and inscribed 'dean sand/ target practice on the german battleship baden', lower right. For the circumstances of this ship's internment and subsequent use as a british gunnery target, 1918-21, see paf1872. This shows her with a list to starboard and smoking from the bow during one of the target days, when she was anchored off the dean sand on the north-east side of spithead. See also pae2736, pae3133, paf1873 and paf1877. [btodd/pvdm 5/13]. Date: 1921. Dimensions: Sheet: 290 x 453 mm. Collection: Fine art.
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