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Soldiers Holding Up Rosaries to be Blessed at a Papal Audience
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
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architecture
army
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cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
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Italian Campaign, 1943-5
Italy
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Soldiers Holding Up Rosaries to be Blessed at a Papal Audience
support: 181 × 187 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p><b>N05673</b>	SOLDIERS HOLDING UP ROSARIES TO BE BLESSED AT A PAPAL AUDIENCE 1944 
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<br/>Inscr. ‘EA.’ b.r.	 </p>
<p>Watercolour, pen and ink (sight), 7 1/8×7 3/8 (18×19).	 
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.	 </p>
<p><i>Exh:</i> <i>National War Pictures</i>, R.A., October–November 1945 (789).	 </p>
<p>Painted in September 1944. The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> records the scene at one of a number of Papal audiences that the Pope gave to English soldiers billeted in or near Rome (letter from the artist, 7 October 1959).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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adults architecture army blessing cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents door features groups hall history interiors Italian Campaign, 1943-5 Italy man military military: World War II palace people places pope public and municipal religion and belief religious residential Rome, Vatican soldier universal religious imagery work and occupations