'A View in Flanders behind the Lines, Showing Locre and the Tops of Dug-Outs on the Scherpenber', Sir Muirhead Bone

Artwork details

Artist

Sir Muirhead Bone (1876‑1953)

Title

A View in Flanders behind the Lines, Showing Locre and the Tops of Dug-Outs on the Scherpenber

Date 1916

MediumGraphite and watercolour on paper

Dimensionssupport: 267 x 413 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by the artist 1919

Reference

N03434

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Catalogue entry

N03434 A VIEW IN FLANDERS BEHIND THE LINES, SHOWING LOCRE AND THE TOPS OF DUG-OUTS ON THE SCHERPENBERG 1916–17

Inscr. ‘Muirhead Bone’ b.l.
Pencil and sepia wash on cream paper, 10 1/2×16 1/4 (27×41·5).
Presented by the artist 1919.
Exh: War Drawings and Lithographs, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October–November 1917 (191).

Nos.3433–44 were drawn by Muirhead Bone as Official War Artist on the Western Front 1916–17. Nos.3433, 3437, 3440, 3441, 3443 and 3444 were transferred to the V. & 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 drawings held in 1917… (read more)