Inventarnummer
5911.12.5
Titel
'Gordon Highlanders: Officers Mess'
Hersteller
Beschreibung
A lithograph of the 'Gordon Highlanders: Officers Mess' by Sir Muirhead Bone. The landscape format sketch looks to be originally done in charcoal, five men are seated around a table with documents laid on it, towards the left are four wine bottle wsith candles in them. The ma non the right is looking directly out of the drawing, with his head resting on his hand and smoking a cigarette. Behind him a soldier is seeated and gazing towards the left, he is wearing a kilt and Glengarry cap. The artists signiature is in the bottom right corner.
The image is printed on a cream paper with a large border and the roman numeral V is printed in black in the top right corner. The print is part of a collection of 60 official sketches drawn by Muirhead Bone during WWI, issued by authority of the War Office, presentation edition, London, 1918. They are loose in a bound folder with a cover listing the images.
Entstehungsort
London, London
Datum
1914 - 1918
Entstehungszeitraum
World War One, 1914-1918
Format
- Width: Folder 400 mm
- Height: 510 mm
- Width: Print 503 mm
- Height: 360 mm