Ruins of Bow Church with St Pauls Beyond. Original off set lithograph. Published 1947.

From a watercolour by Hanslip Fletcher. First edition offset litho published in 1947.

Taken from “Bombed London” (Cassell & Co) and commissioned by the Sunday Times.

Fletcher was a watercolour painter and printmaker with a special interest in London’s architecture.

Born in London, he was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, and became a member of the Art Workers’ Guild. He lived in London all of his life.

Fletcher’s work featured regularly in London’s serious daily and Sunday newspapers, and he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Goupil Gallery, the royal Institution and in other London galleries.

The Guildhall Library and Southampton Art Gallery have some of his works on their collections.