| Description | The first image may refer to Operation Market Garden [the attempted capture of bridges over the Rhine at Nijmegen and Arhem in September 1944] but more likely to Operations Veritable and Grenade [the breakout by British, Canadian, and American forces from land liberated during Market Garden to clear the land between the Rhine and Ruhr rivers in February 1945]; the artwork evokes mediaeval manuscript illumination or Early Netherlandish works. Annotations and/or printers' instructions [partly obscured by mount] in unknown handwriting in the margins: one [possibly in Shepard's] gives the date. |