'O Lord, let us not lose courage' - Soldier in prayer (1939)

Arthur Szyk

pen and black ink and watercolour, over graphite on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

'O Lord, let us not lose courage' - Soldier in prayer (1939)

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Photo credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Graphite, Pen and black ink, Watercolour

Physical Object Description:

O Lord, let us not lose courage; soldier, seen kneeling in profile to left, with hands held in attitude of prayer, carrying backpack and gun, and with helmet on ground before him. 1939 Pen and black ink and watercolour, over graphite. Inscribed and dated: "Arthur Szyk/Longon 1939." and inscribed: "TO POLAND/MY BELOVED COUNTRY/WITH LOVE AND PRIDE...." and "DUCHA NASZEGO ZACHOWAJ NAM PANIE.......".

Dimensions:

23.1 x 15.7 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.196

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1945

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1940; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1940

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

War, Soldier

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