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Soldiers resting (1940)

Gilbert Spencer

watercolour, over graphite; squared for transfer

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Soldiers resting (1940)

© Estate of Gilbert Spencer. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023 Photo credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Watercolour, Graphite

Physical Object Description:

Soldiers resting; a group of soldiers carrying rifles and sitting in a field behind a barbed wire fence. 1940 Watercolour, over graphite; squared for transfer. Inscribed and dated: "Gilbert Spencer/1940".

Technique:

Drawn

Dimensions:

37.8 x 55.7 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.188

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1945

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1941; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1945

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