- Object type
- Prints and Drawings
- Date
- Production: September 1942
- Artist
- Zinkeisen Doris
- Subject(s)
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British Red Cross
Joint Committee
Joint War Organisation
War
St John Ambulance
St John Ambulance Brigade (1887 - 1968)
Fundraising - Associated organisation
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British Red Cross (1870 - present)
Joint War Organisation - Associated activity
- War
- Associated event
- War: Second World War (1 September 1939 - 2 September 1945)
- Inscriptions
-
recto: Doris Zinkeisen
- Dimensions
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Height x width (paper size): 523 x 807mm
Height x width x depth (framed size): 682 x 870 x 20mm - Materials and technique
- Watercolour, black chalk and gouache on paper
- Production place
- London
- References
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Kelleway, Philip. Highly Desirable: The Zinkeisen Sisters And Their Legacy. Leiston: Leiston Press. 2008.
Page 72
Kelleway, Philip, Emma Roodhouse and Nicola Evans. The Art of Doris & Anna Zinkeisen. London: Unicorn. 2021.
Page 129, Figure 3.54
Adam-Suter, Mehzebin. Doris Zinkeisen and the British Red Cross: Brushstrokes from the front lines. British Red Cross, 2025.
Page 45 - Provenance
- Purchased from Murray Johnstone, 1993
- Exhibition history
- Brushstrokes from the Front Lines: Doris Zinkeisen and the British Red Cross , Oxo Gallery, 8 May 2025-11 May 2025
- Catalogue number
- SJA1867.3
Mobile unit at work during an air raid
This artwork shows an ambulance at an area struck during an air raid, volunteers are tending to the wounded amongst the rubble. Sketched by artist and St John Ambulance Brigade volunteer Doris Zinkeisen, this watercolour is one of several designs for a 3-dimensional diorama created to display the work carried out by St John Ambulance and the British Red Cross during the Second World War.
