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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1942
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2001.0583.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- MODEL
- High Flight
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- card stock
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 29.5 cm
- Width
- 22.7 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Archives
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Booth
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- WWII (1939-1945); John Magee composed the poem "High Flight" in Sept. 1941, the original of the lithograph on which it is superimposed was painted by H.H. Booth in 1943; the date this print was produced is unknown
- Canada
-
the author of the poem, Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr., was an American citizen who served in the RCAF from Sept. 1940 to Dec. 1941; the Artist H.H. Booth who painted the original painting was a member of the RCAF - Function
-
inspiration; souvenir; display - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- lettering (poem) reads: "High Flight/Pilot Officer John G. Magee, Jr./Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth/And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;/Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth/Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things/You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung/High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there/I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung/My eager craft through footless halls of air./Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue/I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace/Where never lark, nor even eagle flew -/And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod/The high untrespassed sanctity of space/Put out my hand and touched the face of God."; singature near bottom right of canvas reads: "H.H. Booth, RCAF '43"
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- colour print & insignia; poem in black lettering
- Decoration
- RCAF insignia near top left; image of Supermarine Spitfire in flight 3/4 view near lower right
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Royal Canadian Air Force, Print, after 1942, Artifact no. 2001.0583, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2001.0583.001/
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