Three of ours down Accession Number: ART93359.009

Description

Depicts three Australian soldiers standing in the right corner of the image on the edge of a verdant landscape. A large plume of smoke emanates from a wreckage nearby. In the sky, a zeppelin is in flames with two parachuters half way in their decent to the ground. Beyond this is a plane and another zeppelin, from which two other parachuters begin their decent to safety. The image reads from right to left like a storyboard of three stages of destruction. The three soldiers standing on the sideline could possibly be the survivors of the grounded aircraft. A road and telegraph poles lend the landscape an air of mundanity that contrasts with the scene of destruction in the sky.

Details

Accession Number
ART93359.009
Artist
Sapper William Frederick Kearton
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Measurement
sheet: 17.6 cm x 25.5 cm
Medium
watercolour, ink and wash on paper
Date Made
c1914-18
Place Made
Whole/Part
Child
Item Count
1
Credit Line
acquired 1920
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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