This hand-coloured photo of the German battlecruiser Hindenburg was made in 1919 after the ship was scuttled, or deliberately sunk, at Scapa Flow in Scotland by Rear-Admiral Ludwig von Reuter. It is one of about 250 photographs compiled by Colarts Studios for the exhibition The Pictorial Panorama of the Great War, which toured Australia in the early 1920s. The photos were mostly taken by unnamed soldiers, then colourised and enlarged by ‘soldier artists’ at Colarts Studios.