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A in Flanders behind Lines Showing Locre and Tops DugOuts on Scherpenber
Presented by the artist 1919
adults
architecture
army
Belgium
camp
countries and continents
farmland
figure
groups
history
landscape
military
military: World War I
people
places
residential
tent
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
Western Front
wooded
paper unique graphite watercolour
A View in Flanders behind the Lines, Showing Locre and the Tops of Dug-Outs on the Scherpenber
support: 267 × 413 mm
Presented by the artist 1919
<p><b>N03434</b>	A VIEW IN FLANDERS BEHIND THE LINES, SHOWING LOCRE AND THE TOPS OF DUG-OUTS ON THE SCHERPENBERG 1916–17</p>
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Muirhead Bone’ b.l.
<br/>Pencil and sepia wash on cream paper, 10 1/2×16 1/4 (27×41·5).
<br/>Presented by the artist 1919.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>War Drawings and Lithographs</i>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October–November 1917 (191).</p>
<p>Nos.3433–44 were drawn by Muirhead Bone as Official <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/war-artists" title="Glossary definition for 'War Artists'"><span>War Artist</span></a> on the Western Front 1916–17. Nos.3433, 3437, 3440, 3441, 3443 and 3444 were transferred to the V. &amp; A. on permanent loan in 1932. Because of the number of similar subjects drawn by Bone it is often difficult to be sure of the identification of the works included in the various exhibitions of his war <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> held in 1917. In addition to the exhibitions listed under this and the following entries another, to be held at <i>144</i> New Bond Street, June–July 1917, and to contain drawings for the first volume of C. E. Montague, <i>The Western Front</i>, 1917, was announced in Parts VI and VII of the monthly paper-back issue of this publication, June and July 1917; no catalogue has been traced.</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
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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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adults architecture army Belgium camp countries and continents farmland figure groups history landscape military military: World War I people places residential tent townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features Western Front wooded