drawing
- Museum number
- 1919,0208.55
- Description
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Division Sports of the 15th Division (Artillery) near Waite, June 1917; a clearing in a dense wood, horses and carts of the rival gun teams and several soldiers on horseback
Black chalk, with watercolour
- Production date
- 1917
- Dimensions
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Height: 172 millimetres
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Width: 378 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The British Museum has a collection of 125 drawings of World War I by Muirhead Bone. For more information see Curator's comment 1919,0208.1 and 1919,0208.8.The present drawing is recorded as being part of Muirhead Bone's second group of war drawings: 'Drawings made on the second visit to the Front, 14 April-7 June, 1917' (1919,0208.49+-71). It was reproduced in 'The Western Front - Drawings by Muirhead Bone' (1917), Vol II, Pl 44.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2009 June-Sep, London, Fleming-Wyfold Art Coll, Sir Muirhead Bone
- Associated events
- Associated Event: First World War 1914-1918
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1919,0208.55
