A Carley liferaft RMG PV1013, William Lionel Wyllie, 1914 ?

A carley liferaft a grey/blue watercolour study of an empty carley liferaft floating on calm water. It may be a study for a picture of 'ml282' picking up the crew of the 'iphigenia' during the zeebrugge raid of 1918, in which her cutter is towing a carley raft with lt bonham-carter of the 'intrepid' in it (repr. In m. A. Wyllie, 'we were one' (1935). See also pae0014. Date: 1914 ?. Dimensions: 254 mm x 355 mm. Collection: Fine art.