Level | Item |
Ref No | EHS/G/17/18 |
Alt Ref No | A/0611 |
Title | "M. Torle No 4 Guns" |
Date | September 1918 |
Extent | 1 drawing |
Description | Watercolour, pencil, and biro drawing of a wood with an artillery piece in a wood-reinforced dugout in front of a stump. The date and caption are written in pencil on the front, and the back is annotated in pencil in Shepard's handwriting: "Our forward section in position on the TORLE Rd facing Asaigo Plateau -- sketch done in the evening [words scribbled out] The N.C.O. in charge is lighting the picket lamp + laying the gun on its right lines". |
Format | Artwork |
Exhibitions | EH Shepard: An Illustrator’s War exhibition at The House of Illustration, London, 9 October 2015 to 10 January 2016. |
Kunstenaar in oorlogstijd. E.H. Shepard, tekenaar van Winnie-the-Pooh (Artist in wartime. E.H. Shepard, draughtsman of Winnie -the-Pooh) exhibition at Museum Huis Doorn in the Netherlands, August to December 2017. |