The Munitions Girls' oil painting, England, 1918.

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Painting, (The Munition Girls) by Alexander Stanhope Forbes. Oil on canvas; 40x 50" or 103x127cm, in decorative gilt frame 132x152x8.5cm. Signed and dated bottom left. Female opera tives making 4.5-inch shells at the Kilnhurst Steel Works of John Baker and Co. Ltd., Rotherham. Steel billets are re-heated in a separate furnace and, still glowing, moved by hand to a steam hydraulic press for forging. Mr. George Baker commissioned this scene "to produce a memento for our women workers, and each of them received a framed copy of it". England, United Kingdom, 1918. Show more