Somme 2

Artists sketchbook covering the campaign in the Somme Valley, October - November 1918. The sketchbook comprises 12 pages, including blank pages and 9 sketches. [The places depicted are Mont St Quentin and Peronne, with various sketches of bridges and landscapes, and plans for a house.] The sketchbook is bound in hard cover and covered by stained buff coloured linen. Some pages have been excised.

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

• recto: [blank]; verso: [landscape]
• [landscape]
• recto: [rocks on hilltop]; verso: Mt St Quentin
• recto: Mt St Quentin; verso: [text and numerals]
• recto: [wood]; verso: [landscape]
• recto: [landscape]; verso: Near Mt St Quentin
• Near Mt St Quentin
• recto: [tall trees]; verso: Bridge over Somme
• recto: Bridge over Somme; verso: [house plans]
• recto: [blank]; verso: Ruins in Peronne
• Ruins in Peronne
• [village]