Object number
5911.12.9
Title
'The Night Picket'
Creator
Description
A lithograph print titled 'The Night Picket' by Sir Muirhead Bone. A landscape format sketch of a night scene, a road leads away from the centre of the image with a slope to the left. There are soldiers standing to the left of the image, one seated on the slope, one walinh along the top, two in the distance on the road, a group of three men with their rifles over their shoulders and an officer facing them. The artists signiature is in the bottom right corner.
The image is printed on a cream paper with a large border, the roman numeral X is printed in the top right cirner. 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.
Production place
London, London
Date
1914 - 1918
Production period
World War One, 1914-1918
Dimensions
- Width: Folder 400 mm
- Height: 510 mm
- Width: Print 506 mm
- Height: 360 mm