[Train halted on tracks]; verso: Travelling at night

Somme 1 May 1918 [cloth covered sketchbook containing 16 sketches]

Places	Europe: France, Picardie, Somme Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Amiens
Accession Number	ART93170.011
Collection type	Art
Measurement	Overall: 26.0 x 37.6 cm
Object type	Work on paper
Physical description	pencil on paper
Maker	Streeton, Arthur
Place made	France: Picardie, Somme, Amiens
Date made	May 1918
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Sketch of a train that has been halted on tracks with a person standing next to the train. Traveller's are looking from the train. To the left is an incline with telegraph lines. The verso sketch is of a train travelling across the horizon with explosions visible in the background 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