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"Fire-bomb Fritz" by Reginald Mount, 1942. Ink & inkwash on board.

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Fire-bomb Fritz

"Fire-bomb Fritz" by Reginald Mount, 1942

Catalogue ref: INF 3/1426Links to the Catalogue


Experimental drawing for ‘Fire-bomb Fritz', an animated incendiary bomb whose expression – comic, rather than terrifying – was intended to reassure people of the harmlessness of incendiaries if tackled in time – see accompanying illustration in INF 3/1425 for Colonel Stirrup Pump.

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