Object Details
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- Description
- Pencil and ink wash sketch. The scene is of a group of American soldiers marching in formation in an urban square. One of the soldiers in the march is carrying an American flag. An airplane flies over the city. Washington statue on left. The sketch is on a piece of heavy card stock that is affixed to a piece of cardboard. Underneath the sketch, also attached to the cardboard, is a printed label that reads :"AMERICAN TROOPS DESCENDING AVENUE/PRESIDENT WILSON/Paris, July 4, 1918/BY E. PEIXOTTO/TRANSFERRED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT/2963."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- ID Number
- AF.25805
- catalog number
- 25805
- accession number
- 64592
- Object Name
- sketch
- Physical Description
- pencil (overall production method/technique)
- ink wash (overall production method/technique)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 in x 17 in; 35.56 cm x 43.18 cm
- depicted
- France: Île-de-France, Paris
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
- World War I Art
- Art
- Combat Art
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_445270
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-86e3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
