The other virgin of Albert Accession Number: ART16155

Description

Depicts a figure of a buxom middle aged woman, wearing high heels and carrying a book under her arm. She winks provocatively to someone behind her. This was one of three sketches Dyson gave to machine-gun officer J. C. Dunningham as a thank you for collecting one of Dyson's works from the officers' mess at Henencourt. Dyson had created a caricature of a German on the wall of the mess and Charles Bean requested it for the Memorial's collection. Dunningham arranged for part of the wall to be removed so that the caricature could be preserved. Dyson gave Dunningham this drawing along with ART16156 and ART16157 and Duningham donated all three to the Memorial in 1962. The cartoon from Henencourt is ART00766.

Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France in December 1916, remaining there until May 1917, making records of the Australian involvement in the war. He was formally appointed as an official war artist, attached to the AIF, in May 1917, working in France and London throughout the war. His commission was terminated in March 1920.

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Accession Number
ART16155
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour and pencil on paper
Measurement
sheet: 57.4 cm x 48.8 cm
Medium
watercolour and pencil on paper
Date Made
14 April 1918
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Presented 1962 By Mr J C Dunningham, Coogee NSW
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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