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Description: | image: The view from inside a trench showing the skeleton of a German soldier hanging upside-down from the trench wall.
The skeleton is partially covered by the remains of his uniform, and his helmet lies upturned on the trench floor. All around the ground is
covered with snow.
Orpen's subjects comprised abandoned trenches, craters, graves, wreckage (including battle damaged tanks), and the
casualties of the fighting, the unburied bodies of enemy soldiers. This delicate and eerie image is typical of Orpen's watercolour work
which has an ethereal quality, quite different from his oil paintings.
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Optimised | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 01/3(4-15) Death war debris DE.A trench / defences | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Orpen, William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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