Etching and drypoint on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/christopher-richard-wynne-nevinson-1697" aria-label="More by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson</a>
Survivors at Arras
Bequeathed by Mrs E. West 1982
architecture
history
house
military: World War I
natural phenomena
residential
shadow
street
townscapes / man-made features
Western Front
<p>This print shows the only two houses in the French town of Arras not hit by shells or bombs during the first world war. When it was illustrated in British Artists at the Front 1 1918, a brief commentary noted that 'the rest of Arras after the War will have to be built again’.</p><p>One of the greatest English war poets, Isaac Rosenberg, was killed in a battle near Arras. Like Blake he was also an artist. One of his last poems, sharing an apocalyptic vision of the kind Blake had, was called The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes.</p><p><em>Gallery label, December 2004</em></p>
paper print etching drypoint
6 December 2004 – 15 August 2005
2005-08-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-12-06
Blake and Jerusalem
Collection based display
Survivors at Arras
Bequeathed by Mrs E. West 1982
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<span class="text6">This print shows the only two houses in the French town      of Arras not hit by shells </span><span class="text14">or bombs during the      first world war. When</span><span class="text6"> it was illustrated in </span><span class="text13">British Artists at the Front 1</span><span class="text6"> 1918,      a brief commentary noted that 'the rest of Arras after the War will have to      be built again’. </span>
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<span class="text6">One of the greatest English war poets, Isaac Rosenberg,      was killed in a battle near Arras. Like Blake he was also an artist. One of      his last poems, sharing an apocalyptic vision of the kind Blake had, was      called </span><span class="text13">The Destruction of Jerusalem</span><span class="text6"> </span><span class="text13">by the</span><span class="text6"> </span><span class="text13">Babylonian Hordes</span><span class="text6">. </span>
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<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nevinson-survivors-at-arras-p11049" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P11049</span></a> <b>Survivors at Arras</b> 1917–18
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<br/>Etching and drypoint 11 × 9 1/4 (280 × 232) on paper 20 3/4 × 16 1/8 (527 × 413), printed by the artist
<br/>Inscribed ‘CRW Nevinson 1918’ b.r. and ‘I’
<br/>Bequeathed by Mrs E. West 1982
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Kenneth Guichard, <i>British Etchers 1850–1940</i>, London 1981, Appendix 4, p.79, no.13 (dated 1917)
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-27T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture history house military: World War I natural phenomena residential shadow street townscapes / man-made features Western Front