The problem of illuminating a sufficiently large area for a landing spot [Lithograph of a painting by Lieutenant Henri Farré]

Lithograph of a painting by Lieutenant Henri Farré featuring a biplane in flight at night, circa 1914-1918. Part of a series of eight lithographs depicting World War I aerial imagery.

Typed caption: "The problem of illuminating a sufficiently large area for a landing spot having been solved, there are opened up the vast possibilities of high reconnaissance by moonlight. The painting shows a Voisin type of reconnaissance plane passing through the clouds at an altitude of 5,000 feet, surrounded, obscure mark as it is, by bursting shells. 1914. From a painting by Lieut. Henri Farré."

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