Sketchbook [soft-grey cover]

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. The sketchbook comprises 13 pages, one loose sheet, with 16 drawings of landscapes, encampments, horses, ruined buildings, officer's quarters, chateaus, headquarters, ambulances and hospitals. Places depicted include St Gratien, La Houssoye, Coisy and Abbeville. Sketch on the inside cover and a sketch on the inside back cover of stretcher bearers. The sketchbook is bound in a green-grey card. Some pages have been excised.

Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account 2007

• St Gratien
• recto: [Tent]; verso: Looking over Pont Noyelles, Querrieu
• Looking over Pont Noyelles, Querrieu
• verso: [Farm building]
• recto: Fresh blue sky; verso: [officer's hut]
• recto: On Albert Road, La Houssoye; verso: [Encampment]
• recto: Coisy; verso: [sketch]
• recto: [Building]; verso: Coisy
• [Entrance gate]
• [House plans]; verso: Abbeville
• [House plans]; verso: [House plans]
• [Hospital tents]
• [House plan]