Looking towards Albert from 2nd Machine Gun Battalion's billets, Baizieux

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Accession Number ART02307
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 44 x 55.2 cm; image: 44 x 55.2 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description crayon, chalk, brush and ink on grey paper
Place made France
Date made 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicts a view of a landscape of undulating hills observed from inside the 2nd Machine Gun Battalion's billet in Baizieux, near Picardie and the Somme in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France in December 1916, remaining there until May 1917, making records of the Australian involvement in the war. He was formally appointed as an official war artist, attached to the AIF, in May 1917, working in France and London throughout the war. His commission was terminated in March 1920.