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John S Smith
Mighty Machines: Giant Digger (Original) (Signed)

Mighty Machines: Giant Digger (Original) (Signed) by John S Smith at The Illustration Art Gallery

Ref: SmithJSCutterLL (Click for LARGE picture)

Artist: John S Smith (biography)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 23" x 15" (575mm x 390mm)
Date: 1980
Signature: Signed by artist top left

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by John S Smith.

Mighty Machines: Turning the Desert Into a Land of Plenty. This giant digger was constructed by a West German company and used to dig a canal in Pakistan. This took three years and was completed in 1970.

After this the whole machine was dismantled and sent to Sudan where it was used to cut a canal from the White Nile for 350km to irrigate possible farming land in Northern Sudan and Egypt.

From Look and Learn no. 962 (16 August 1980).


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John S Smith

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