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Bivouac in the Somme Valley
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Depicts two soldiers in front of a tent, one seated and one standing. The tent is in a forest clearing in France. Two additional tents are behind the front one. George Bell was appointed official war ...ART92140
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Dernancourt
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
A wrecked landscape at Dernancourt, Western Front.ART11422
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Goordbelayinji
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Maker: Purdie, Shirley
Goordbelayinji is a Gija word that is used to describe any place where many have been killed at one time. In this painting, Purdie speaks about events on her Father's Country: violence amongst neighbo...AWM2018.471.1
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Landscape with distant church: Morgmint Wood: sketch for model of Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting a view of Morgmint Wood comprising a landscape with distant church. Sketch for the Villers-Bretonneux diorama. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916...ART11426.008
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Panorama of Messines [first section]
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
A panorama view of the landscape of Messines, with hills in the middle and distant grounds. The landscape contains two ruined buildings one at the centre left and one at centre right and several rows ...ART11424.001
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Panorama of Messines, fourth section
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts a brown and green landscape and white verticle lines of dead trees. Rocks on the top of the hill may be the remnants of houses or farm buildings. This landscape shows the devastating effects o...ART11424.004
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Panorama of Messines [second section]
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Broken and burnt trees line the road to Messines in Belgium following the First World War. The green grass and new growth is indicative of the reclaiming of the war ravaged landscape by nature. Louis...ART11424.002
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Panorama of Messines, third section
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts a barren landscape, the trees stripped bare and regrown green grass. There is a town in the distance and the church steeple is visible in the centre right, echoing the verticality of the trees...ART11424.003
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Pillboxes, Messines Ridge
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts wrecked German pillboxes at Messines Ridge, Western Front. Pillboxes were developed during the First World War to provide a secure place near the trenches to fire on an attacking side and were...ART03125
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The drover
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Depicts a group of German prisoners being escorted by an Australian soldier on horseback on the Somme battlefield, walking past a windmill on their way to prisoner of war camp in France. This paintin...ART00142
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Villers-Bretonneux looking east
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Depicts a landscape with a row of trees in the foreground.ART93085