"How will that do sister?"

Place Europe: France
Accession Number ART90503
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 33 x 20.4 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description crayon on paper
Maker Vasco, Louis
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

Various Ragtime sketches of soldiers, one stands smoking a pipe and holding a frying pan with the words "How will that do Sister" inscribed beneath. Another soldier smokes, two sit and read, and one stands slightly slumped, holding what could be a bed sheet. Part of a series of sketches entitled 'Ragtime sketches round the 47th General Hospital, France.'

This drawing is attributed to Louis Vasco - the artist's given name was Vasco Loureiro but he enlisted as Louis Vasco and has signed his name 'Vasco', 'Spr Vasco'.