The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 13, 2026

A horizontally oriented lithograph in black ink on beige paper depicts a dense shipyard. Intricate webs of diagonal cranes and vertical scaffolding dominate the foreground, framing a ship under construction. Stippled shading suggests smoke billowing into the sky from the center. Tiny silhouetted figures move through ground-level tracks and elevated walkways. Scratchy black lines and deep shadows create high contrast, emphasizing the massive scale of skeletal masts and industrial structures.

On the Clyde, 1917-1918: Reconstructing a Clyde Shipyard

1917–1918

Muirhead Bone

(British, 1876–1953)
England, 20th century
lithograph
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1923.231
Catalogue raisonné: Pelletier 367
Location: Not on view
  • Prints of Industrial Subjects. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 1934-January 15, 1935).
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