Accession Number | ART90377 |
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Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall - Closed: 11.5 x 18 x 1.3 cm; Overall - Open: 11.5 x 36.2 cm |
Object type | Sketchbook |
Physical description | pencil, wash on paper |
Maker |
Bolton, Frederick Charles |
Date made | 1919 |
Conflict |
Period 1910-1919 First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
No. 3 [Sketchbook comprising 61 pages, with 46 pages containing drawings and notes relating to First World War service]
Description
Frederick enlisted 5 January 1918 in Sydney, New South Wales. He was posted to the Field Company Engineers, 1st Draft Reinforcements, as a surveyor and draftsman. Bolton embarked from Sydney to London on HMAT "Runic" on 22 March 1918 and arrived London 24 May 1918. This sketchbook documents his brief service of four months.
- Netley Abbey on Southampton
- not titled [portrait of an old man]
- not titled [description for sketch on page 4]
- not titled [town street]
- not titled [text for sketch on page 6]
- not titled [seated soldier]
- not titled [soldier smoking a pipe]
- not tiled [study of a boot]
- Clem Steele
- not titled [portrait]
- not titled [head studies]
- not titiled [rough outline of head study]
- not titled [men in boats]
- not titled [head study]
- Clem Steele
- [portrait titled but illegible]
- not titled [sketch of a statue on a plinth]
- not titled [figure studies]
- not titled [figure studies]
- not titled [houses and stairs]
- not titled [person sleeping]
- "Drake", Plymouth
- The "stepway", Exeter
- Red deer, Exeter Museum
- not titled [studies of Turks]
- not titled [sailing boat]
- not titled [boatperson]
- not titled [tug boat on Suez Canal]
- not titled [troopship]
- not titled [troopship]
- Suez Canal
- not titled [soldier on troopship]
- Suez Canal
- The game of cards
- not titled [soldiers on a troopship]
- not titled [soldier smoking a pipe]
- not titled [seated soldier sketching]
- not titled [seated soldier]
- not titled [sleeping soldier]
- not titled [soldier peeling potatoes]
- not titled [figures]
- not titled [figures]
- not titled [figure holding oars]
- not titled [shirtless soldier]
- [artist's notes for ART90377.044]
- not titled [portrait]