| Accession Number | AWM2022.137.1 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Sheet: 17 x 25.5 cm |
| Object type | Work on paper |
| Physical description | pencil and wash on paper |
| Maker |
Streeton, Arthur Ernest |
| Date made | 1918 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
recto: not titled [2nd Division Australian Infantry on the march]; verso: not titled [unfinished sketch]
Description
The composition of this sketch seems to directly relate to his later work ‘5th Division going in, Lahoussoye’ (ART19790). Both the works depicts an infantry division camped in the village of Lahoussoye in France in April 1918. Lahoussoye stood on the front line and was taken over as billets and camps. Official war artist Arthur Streeton painted many pictures in this area because there were many Australians stationed there.
recto: This sketch may be derived from the 'SOMME I / MAY 1918' (ART93169 / ART93170) sketch book, which includes similar sketches of 2nd Division Infantry. Streeton, who focused on composition aspects of his artworks while sketching in the field during the First World War, produced sketches that he would reference later in other artworks, drawing on his back-log of composition ideas.
verso: An unfinished sketch in pencil of a wagon at the end of a line of troops.
Donated through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program by Dr Joseph Xipell