N° d'objet
5911.12.4
Titre
'The Battle of the Somme'
Créateur
Description
A lithograph of 'The Battle of the Somme' by Sir Muirhead Bone. The landscape format sketch is loose in style and shows a landscape with corkscrew pickets and crosses in the bottom right corner, there are men seated and standing, plumes of smoke can be seen in the background and in the sky are three planes. The artists signiature is in the bottom left corner, with the date 'Aug 18, 1916'.
The image is printed on a cream paper with a large border and the roman numeral IV 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.
Lieu de création
London, London
Date
1916 - 1918
Période de création
World War One, 1914-1918
Dimensions
- Width: Folder 400 mm
- Height: 510 mm
- Width: Print 503 mm
- Height: 360 mm