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"VE - Day at Buckingham Palace" Artist unknown, 1945. Ink on board.

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"VE - Day at Buckingham Palace" Artist unknown, 1945

Catalogue ref: INF 3/1089Links to the Catalogue


A drawing for a magazine, depicting a cheering crowd (waving Union Jacks) outside Buckingham Palace, almost certainly from VE Day. Such an image would only have been appropriate once victory was declared.

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