Accession Number | ART93359.009 |
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Collection type | Art |
Measurement | sheet: 17.6 x 25.5 cm; image: 14.5 x 21.6 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | watercolour, ink and wash on paper |
Maker |
Kearton, William Frederick |
Place made | France |
Date made | c. 1916 - 1918 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Three of ours down
Description
Depicts three Australian soldiers standing in the right corner of the image on the edge of a verdant landscape. A large plume of smoke emanates from a wreckage nearby. In the sky, a zeppelin is in flames with two parachuters half way in their decent to the ground. Beyond this is a plane and another zeppelin, from which two other parachuters begin their decent to safety. The image reads from right to left like a storyboard of three stages of destruction. The three soldiers standing on the sideline could possibly be the survivors of the grounded aircraft. A road and telegraph poles lend the landscape an air of mundanity that contrasts with the scene of destruction in the sky.