Sketchbook [marbled covered sketchbook containing 7 sketches]

Artists sketchbook covering the campaign in the Somme Valley, 1918. The sketchbook comprises 6 pages, with 7 drawings of landscapes, encampments and military bands. Inscriptions on the inside front and back covers.
The sketchbook is bound in a hard cover covered with marbled paper. 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

• recto: [blank]; verso: [landscape]
• recto: [landscape]; verso: [landscape]
• recto: [landscape]; verso: [columns]
• recto: [soldiers with horses and supplies under trees]; verso: Corps cage
• recto: [blank]; verso: [band playing in the woods]
• recto: [blank]; verso: 2nd Div. H.Q. Glisy