Skip to main content

"The Furnace": P.14928-R(26)

An image of Portfolio
View image details Mirador icon - view image Mirador deep zoom IIIF Manifest IIIF Manifest Slow looking

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Alternative views

An image of Portfolio
Current Location: In storage

Titles

"The Furnace"
The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Clausen, George
Publisher: Ministry of Information
Draughtsman: Clausen, George (After)

Entities

Categories

Description

The whiteness of an unprinted area at the centre of this print is used to startling effect to represent the bright light of the fiery furnace and the sparks issuing from it like fireworks. A worker in the right foreground is cast in silhouette, dwarfed by the size and power of the operation.

Notes

History note: From the printed Annual Report, 1919: 'A collection of sixty-six large lithographic prints by Muirhead Bone, Eric Kennington, George Clausen, R.A., Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., C.R.W. Nevinson, William Rothenstein, Charles Pears, Claude Shepperson, A.S. Hartrick, and other artists, illustrating The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals, have been received from the Ministry of Information, under whose auspices these splendid lithographs were made.'

Legal notes

Given by the Ministry of Information, 1919

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1919) by Ministry of Information

Dating

20th Century
Production date: AD 1917

Note

Monochrome print, in black ink only. Signed and dated at lower right: 'G CLAUSEN.1917.'. Blindstamp of Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (George V) as used by HM Government at lower left. The paper is watermarked: 'HOLBEIN'.

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14928-R(26)
Primary reference Number: 239843

Audit data

Created: Thursday 9 January 2020 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) ""The Furnace"" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/239843 Accessed: 2025-12-05 20:18:35

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/239843 |title="The Furnace" |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-05 20:18:35|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-239843

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/636/10/large_P_14928_R_26__2_201810_amt49_mas.jpg"
        alt=""The Furnace""
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">"The Furnace"</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo