A Battery of French 75's
Object Details
- associated person
- War Department
- Duncan, Walter Jack
- Description
- Charcoal with brush and ink wash. Horizontal landscape format. Several buildings and trees in background; four pieces of field artillery going into action. Soldiers standing at each canon. Pile of shot on the ground in the left of the sketch. Sketch done on white wove paper mounted on beige card with decorative ruled lines in graphite on the mount.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff
- 1918-06-07
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- ID Number
- AF.25685
- catalog number
- 25685
- accession number
- 64592
- Object Name
- sketch
- Physical Description
- ink wash (overall production method/technique)
- charcoal (overall production method/technique)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 in x 20 in; 35.56 cm x 50.8 cm
- sketch: 9 in x 15 1/4 in; 22.86 cm x 38.735 cm
- referenced
- France: Hauts-de-France, Château-Thierry
- 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_448066
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-859b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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