| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | ART93170 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall: 26.0 x 37.6 cm [closed]; 26.0 x 74.8 cm [open] |
| Object type | Sketchbook |
| Physical description | pencil and wash on paper in buff linen covered sketchbook |
| Maker |
Streeton, Arthur |
| Place made | France: Picardie, Somme |
| Date made | May 1918 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Somme 1 May 1918 [cloth covered sketchbook containing 16 sketches]
Description
Artists sketchbook covering the campaign in the Somme Valley, May 1918. The sketchbook comprises 17 pages, two loose sheets, and five blank pages, with 16 drawings of landscapes, encampments and bomb dumps. Places depicted include Somme River, Glisy, Vaux-sur-Somme, Amiens, Chuignolles, and Corbie. Sketches on the inside cover and sketches on the inside back cover. The sketchbook is bound in a hard cover covered with stained buff coloured linen. Some pages have been excised. This sketchbook is from Streeton's first official war artist commission to France 14 May-13 August 1918 where he worked mainly around the Somme battlefields.
Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007
- [blank]; verso: [Landscape]
- [Landscape]
- [blank]; verso: [Encampment under trees]
- [blank]; verso: Vaux
- [Landscape]
- On road toward Corbie
- [blank]; verso: [Rooftop]
- [Encampment outside Glisy]; verso: [View of Amiens]
- [blank]; verso: [Partial roof]
- Bomb dump near Chuignolles
- [Train halted on tracks]; verso: Travelling at night
- Night barrage, Corbie