[Headpiece for "The caveman"] Accession Number: ART00051

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An illustration to a poem entitled 'The Caveman' by J M Collins of the 9th Battalion. This work was used in the 'ANZAC Book', which was published in 1916 from illustrations, poems, stories and other creative works from the soldiers on the Gallipoli peninsula. In November 1915 CEW Bean, an official war correspondent and eventually official war historian, called for contributions for what was initially to be an ANZAC New Year magazine. Bean edited the work on the island of Imbros and after the Greek publisher fell through, arranged to have the work published in London by Cassell and Company. The book is composed of satirical and sombre pieces about the conditions of life at Gallipoli. It also provides a general outline of the April 25 landing at ANZAC Cove and the military advances, offensives and defensives undertaken in the following months until the eventual evacuation of the Allied forces at the end of December 1915. The introduction was written by General Sir W Birdwood, who explains how he named ANZAC Cove on the Gallipoli peninsula after the ANZAC forces. Bean contributed an editor's note in which he outlined the harsh conditions that the book was produced in, the significance it had taken on, and acknowledged the contributors.
Frank Crozier (1883-1948) was a painter and illustrator. In 1915 he enlisted with the 22nd Battalion AIF serving in Egypt and Gallipoli. In France he served under Brigadier-General Gellibrand who asked Crozier to make sketches of the Battle of Pozieres. He was trained in camouflage work in London in 1918 with Will Longstaff, J.S.MacDonald and James Scott, and in September 1918 he was appointed as an official war artist. Following the war he was among the artists who worked for Australian War Records at the St. John's Wood studio in London. In 1919 Crozier returned to Australia and his commission was terminated in June 1920.

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Accession Number
ART00051
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: brush and ink, pencil on paper mounted on card
Measurement
Overall: 40.4 cm x 30.3 cm
Medium
pen and ink and brush, pencil on paper
Date Made
1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Acquired 1920
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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