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Accession Number | ART93169 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 26.0 x 37.6 cm [closed]; 26.0 x 74.8 cm [open] |
Object type | Sketchbook |
Physical description | pencil and wash on paper in buff linen covered sketchbook |
Maker |
Streeton, Arthur |
Place made | France: Picardie, Somme |
Date made | 1918 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Somme 1 May 1918 [cloth covered sketchbook containing 16 sketches]
Description
Artists sketchbook covering the campaign in the Somme Valley, May 1918. The sketchbook comprises 21 pages, two loose sheets, and two blank pages, with 16 drawings of landscapes, and depictions of a review of the 2nd Division for General Sir Charles Rosenthal. Notes on the inside cover and sketches on the inside back cover. Places depicted include Amiens, Corbie, and the Somme Valley. The sketchbook is bound in hard covers covered by stained buff coloured linen. Some pages have been excised.
Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007
- [Interior of Bellicourt tunnel]
- [Landscape]
- [Blank]; verso: [Landscape]
- [Blank]; verso: The Somme [View of Corbie]
- The Somme [View of Corbie]
- [Blank]; verso: [Riverscape with fallen tree]
- [Two sketches of a review of 2nd Division by General Sir Charles Rosenthal]; verso: [Sketch of a review of 2nd Division by General Sir Charles Rosenthal]
- [Blank]; verso: [Sketch of a review of 2nd Division by General Sir Charles Rosenthal]
- [Sketch of a review of 2nd Division by General Sir Charles Rosenthal]
- [Blank]; verso: [Landscape]
- [Blank]; verso: [Smith's side of road and railway]
- [Smith's side of road and railway]
- [Blank]; verso: [Landscape]
- [Village landscape]
- [Blank]; verso: Landscape]
- [Blank]; verso: [View of Amiens]
- [View of Amiens]
- [View of Amiens]
- [blank]; verso: [Villers-Bretonneux memorial cross]
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