Unloading shell cases, Glisy Dump; verso:[Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux]

Not titled [sketchbook containing 27 pages of drawings made in Glisy on the Western Front]

Places	Europe: France Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Amiens Harbonnieres Area Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Amiens Harbonnieres Area, Glisy Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Amiens Harbonnieres Area, Villers-Bretonneux Area
Accession Number	ART19796.004
Collection type	Art
Measurement	Overall: 25.9 cm x 37.3 cm x 1 cm; Sheet: 25.2 cm x 36.8 cm; Overall - Open: 25.9 cm x 73.5 cm
Object type	Work on paper
Physical description	pencil and watercolour wash; pencil, carbon pencil and watercolour
Maker	Longstaff, Will
Place made	France: Picardie, Somme, Amiens Harbonnieres Area, Glisy
Date made	1918
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A sketch showing men unloading shell cases from waggons at the Glisy Dump. Verso: the left hand panel of a panorama sketch for 'Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux'. This shows some dugouts set in the side of earth works, and a barbed wire fence crosses the landscape. From the artist's sketchbook covering the campaign on the Western Front during July - November 1918.