Loft at Saint-Sylvestre-Cappel

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Accession Number ART03383
Collection type Art
Measurement framed: 68.2 x 77.6 x 6.5 cm; unframed: 50.6 x 61 cm; sight: 49.7 x 59.6 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Place made France: Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Dunkirk, St Sylvestre Cappel
Date made 11 July 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Loft being used as an observation post by AIF soldiers at St Sylvestre Chapelle, near Lys Area, Western Front. This painting is mentioned in Bean's diaries: (1918) July 12th.... "I had arranged for Scott, one of our A.I.F. artists to meet me here. He had been up in the O.P. yesterday painting the scene in the O.P. - I saw the painting and it was excellently typical, with a number of observers in a loft looking out through the holes in the broken tile roof."