Le Cateau Accession Number: ART00111

Description

View of the village of Le Cateau, with ruined and war damaged buildings, trucks on the roadway and a church spire. It was a village behind the Hindenburg Line, captured by Australians in November 1918.

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Accession Number
ART00111
Artist
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour over pencil, heightened with white on paper
Measurement
sheet: 39.8 x 57.2 cm
Medium
watercolour over pencil, heightened with white on paper
Date Made
1918
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Acquired under the official war art scheme 1919
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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