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Description: | WILLIAM ROBERTS. 1918.
image: a squared up preparatory sketch for 'A Shell Dump, France'. Gunners are lined up along duck-boarded walkways,
passing artillery shells to one another in a long chain. Some men also carry wooden boxes and there is a sign stating '9th Div' in the
background.
The sketches for 'A Shell Dump, France' (IWM ART 2273) were made retrospectively in December 1918 at Bramley Dump near
Reading.
This study for 'A Shell Dump, France' (IWM ART 2273) starts to draw out the detail and character of the final
painting.
Ministry of Information commission (Scheme 2)
Optimised | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Artillery Western Front 1914-1918 9th Division British Army 1914-1918 Military Personnel British Army munitions / manufacture Uniforms Western Front Artillery First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Roberts, William (RA) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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