Object Details
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Smith, J. Andre
- Description
- Charcoal and ink wash sketch on paper. This rough sketch depicts a village street with a camouflage apparatus hung over the street. Soldiers are in the thoroughfare, under the camouflage screen. The museum's catalogue card for this drawing reads, "The road through Merviller is on the slope of a hill and is exposed to German observation. But by the use overhead camouflage screening, one strip of which is here shown, the traffic along this road is entirely concealed."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff
- 1918-04
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- ID Number
- AF.26014
- catalog number
- 26014
- accession number
- 64592
- Object Name
- sketch
- Physical Description
- watercolor (overall production method/technique)
- pencil (overall material)
- paper (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 1/2 in x 14 in; 24.13 cm x 35.56 cm
- sketch: 9 3/16 in x 13 1/2 in; 23.368 cm x 34.29 cm
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
- Military
- World War I Art
- Art
- Combat Art
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_445813
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-7c39-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
