Bataille de la Somme, Bois de Thiepval
Art ART50201 First World War, 1914-1918Depicts a badly war-damaged landscape , with smashed and burnt trees and birds circling overhead at the Thiepval Woods after the battle of the Somme, in France.
Bataille de la Somme, Pozieres Accession Number: ART12265
Description
A town street in Poziere, with trees and a church. Paul Mansard was a French artist. This etching was presented to the War Memorial by Sister Constance Adelaide Stone MBE, RRC, a nurse, who enlisted in November 1914 and initially served with the No.2 Australian General Hospital and spent time in Egypt and Great Britain, before returning to Australia in July 1919. The work was one of a number of aquatints that she gave to the War Memorial in March 1935 as 'war mementoes of an Australian Army nurse'.
Details
Accession Number
ART12265
Artist
Paul Mansard
Classification
Art
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Medium: hand-coloured etching, aquatint on paper
Measurement
sheet: 31.8 cm x 22.3 cm
Medium
hand-coloured etching, aquatint on wove paper
Date Made
1916-1918
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Presented by Sister CA Stone 1935
Copyright
Copyright unknown
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