Post by Admin on Nov 30, 2015 15:02:18 GMT -5
While the sea is calm, the sky is dirty with a black pall of smoke hanging over where the Lusitania was torpedoed by a U-boat in 1915.
And the shocking trail of dead bodies interspersed with survivors on wreckage from the passenger liner is clear in this stunning painting.
The artwork by William Lionel Wyllie captures the mayhem after the ship was sunk off Ireland on the way to Liverpool from New York.
And it is featured in an art collection of unseen, 'lost' or little-known paintings about life on naval and merchant ships in the world wars.
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And the shocking trail of dead bodies interspersed with survivors on wreckage from the passenger liner is clear in this stunning painting.
The artwork by William Lionel Wyllie captures the mayhem after the ship was sunk off Ireland on the way to Liverpool from New York.
And it is featured in an art collection of unseen, 'lost' or little-known paintings about life on naval and merchant ships in the world wars.
LINK