National Museums Northern Ireland

National Museums Northern Ireland Picture Library

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National Museums Northern Ireland’s Picture Library provides quality prints from our art, history and science collections. Featured collections include the Harland & Wolff Titanic photographs, the Welch photographs taken of Belfast in the early 1900’s and our extensive range of William Conor images from our art collection.

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The Three Dancers (1945)

The Three Dancers is a prime example of Luke’s highly stylised and precise technique. The flowing lines of the dancers’ arms, the bending boughs of the bush and the wavy undulations of the landscape, create the rhythm of the dance in a powerfully immediate way. The subtle finish and intense colour derives from the use of tempera, a medium Luke began experimenting with in ...

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The Potato Gatherers

Shows two women in centre foreground bending to fill a bucket, to the right in the distance a man stoops at work, they blend into the background but are silhouetted against the pink tinged clouds of a blue sky.

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HOYFM.HW.H1555

Photograph, Harland and Wolff glass plate negative. subject : Queen's Road and shipyard men leaving work. TITANIC in background ready for launching. Ship No: 401. Name: Titanic. Type: Passenger Ship. Tonnage: 46328. Launch; 31 May 1911. Delivery: 2 April 1912. Owner: Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (White Star Line)

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HOYFM.HW.H1637

Photograph, Harland and Wolff glass plate negative. subject : Starboard bow view entering Thompson Graving Dock, with starboard bow 3/4 profile of TITANIC outfitting. Ship No: 400. Name: Olympic. Type: Passenger Ship. Tonnage: 45324. Launch: 20 October 1910. Delivery: 31 May 1911. Owner: Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (White Star Line).