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[Sleeping in the dugout]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and his bearded friend sleeping in a dugout on crudely made bunk-beds. The scene has a cosy atmosphere, due to the artists's enclosing of the characters in a soft, rounded spa...ART93070.006
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[Soldiers in trench surveying the battlefield]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts two French soldiers standing in a trench and relatively at ease. The bearded soldier in the backbround is smoking a pipe with his hands at his sides. He is looking over the top of the trench...ART93070.003
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'Souvenir des tranchèes de CHAMPAGNE 1914 - 1915, 1916'
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist of the story, a French soldier, in full uniform in the foreground standing on a decorative sprig of leaves. He is leaning with his right arm on a shield upon which is written:...ART93070.002
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Souvenir des tranchèes de CHAMPAGNE 1914 - 1915 [Souvenir of the trenches of Champagne, 1914 - 1915]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
This sketchbook belonging to Paul Prangère was found on the WWI battlefields in France by Private Charles Edward Goldspink M.M., 17th Infantry Battalion. The sketches enclosed depict life in the tren...ART93070
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[The kiss]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist delivering a chaste public kiss to his wife while they are embracing. Both figures are quite large on the page, and the drawing shows both of their costumes in detail. She ha...ART93070.025
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[Two friends regarding one another]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and his bearded friend respectively in three-quarter profile. They appear to be talking to one another. The bearded man is smoking his pipe, and the numbers '320' are clearly...ART93070.012
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[Wife receives notice of leave]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the wife of the protagonist reading a missive delivered by the army mail ('CARTE MILITAIRE'), and written by her husband. It informs her that he will arrive tomorrow ('demain'). Unfortunatel...ART93070.023
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[Wife writing to her husband at the front]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist's wife sitting at a table writing a letter to her husband. It is a counterpoint to the preceding drawing in the sketchbook - which is of the man writing to his wife. Again, i...ART93070.008
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[Writing a letter to the wife]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist sitting on a box of grenades in the bottom left corner, writing a letter on a makeshift table. It is a rather symbolist piece; his imagining of his wife is drawn in the upper ...ART93070.007