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Description: | Paul Nash 1918. 1919 (signed)
image: a view of a Western Front battlefield in the aftermath of battle, with rain falling from the sky. Four corpses lie
amongst shattered trenches, with broken duckboards, barbed wire and corrugated iron littering the scene. There are also water filled shell
holes and the remains of a few bare trees on the horizon.
Correspondence in the Imperial War Museum between Nash and the Ministry of Information refers to a picture, not
otherwise identified, called 'After an Advance', which was substantially complete in 1918 (Causey/ IWM War Artists Archive: Cat. No. IWM
WW1 267A-6).
Ministry of Information commission, Scheme 2. Commission administration transferred to Imperial War
Museum
Optimised | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Bomb Damage Death Western Front 1914-1918 British Army 1914-1918 British Army Landscape German Army 1914-1918 Western Front trench / defences First World War military suffering Imperial German Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Nash, Paul | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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