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"Convalescence in England" The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals
Printmaker:
Shepperson, Claude Allin
Publisher:
Ministry of Information
Draughtsman:
Shepperson, Claude Allin
(After)
A scene on a sloping lawn before a large house with a dutch gable. Two soldiers, one with a crutch, sit on the bank in the left foreground, a nurse helps another down some steps at centre middleground and a lone figure on crutches walks beneath an overarching willow tree in the distance on the right.
History note: From the printed Annual Report, 1919: 'A collection of sixty-six large lithographic prints by Muirhead Bone, Eric Kennington, George Clausen, R.A., Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., C.R.W. Nevinson, William Rothenstein, Charles Pears, Claude Shepperson, A.S. Hartrick, and other artists, illustrating The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals, have been received from the Ministry of Information, under whose auspices these splendid lithographs were made.'
Given by the Ministry of Information, 1919
Method of acquisition: Given (1919) by Ministry of Information
20th Century
Production date:
AD 1917
Monochrome, printed in black ink. Signed at lower right: 'Shepperson'. Blindstamp of Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (George V) as used by HM Government at lower left.
Accession number: P.14932-R(54)
Primary reference Number: 239875
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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