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Waiting Wounded at a Collecting Station in Field on Somme at Montauban
Presented by the artist 1919
paper unique charcoal watercolour
Waiting for the Wounded at a Collecting Station in the Field on the Somme at Montauban
support: 330 × 495 mm
Presented by the artist 1919
<p><b>N03435</b>	WAITING FOR THE WOUNDED AT A COLLECTING STATION IN THE FIELD ON THE SOMME AT MONTAUBAN 1916–17
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Bone’ b.r.
<br/>Charcoal and wash, 13×19 1/2 (33×49·5).
<br/>Presented by the artist 1919.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) <i>Drawings of the Western Front</i>, Aberdeen and Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, May–June 1917 (1); (?) <i>War Drawings and Lithographs</i>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October–November 1917 (126).</p>
<p>One of at least two <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> of similar subjects, cf. C.E. Montague, <i>The Western Front</i>, 1917, I, pl.12. No.126 in the Whitechapel exhibition was given the following text in the catalogue: ‘The horrors of war are mitigated as far as possible through the heroic devotion of those who tend the wounded.’</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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