The moat, Fort 9, Ingolstadt

Place Europe: Germany, Ingolstadt
Accession Number ART90991
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 15.5 x 20.6 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour on paper
Maker Fairweather, Ian
Place made Germany
Date made c 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: External copyright

Description

View from the prisoner of war camp in Ingolstadt, Germany during the First World War. The moat was the dominant feature of the camp and many attempts were made by prisoners to escape into the surrounding snow-covered landscape by utilising this unusual feature.