A Chataeu near Brie on the Somme
Lithographic print of original coloured chalks and wash drawing, ‘A Chateau near Brie on the Somme’, by artist Sir David Muirhead Bone. Published in a series in 1917, it was originally executed in 1916. The scene is of total destruction, with the only feature remaining being a tall neo-classical column. The area around the column is scattered with fallen masonry and stone.
This print forms part of a green paper folder of an “edition de luxe” of signed proofs: 10 prints made from the War Drawings of Muirhead Bone. Muirhead Bone travelled to France on 16 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He was the first official British war artist of the First World War producing 150 drawings in six weeks. It is from this series of works which this drawing is most likely to have originated from.
Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) was a Scottish watercolourist and etcher. He was known for his depictions of wartime industrial and architectural settings. He was on the advisory committees for the British War Memorials during the First World War and the War Artists Advisory panel during the Second World War.
This print forms part of a green paper folder of an “edition de luxe” of signed proofs: 10 prints made from the War Drawings of Muirhead Bone. Muirhead Bone travelled to France on 16 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He was the first official British war artist of the First World War producing 150 drawings in six weeks. It is from this series of works which this drawing is most likely to have originated from.
Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) was a Scottish watercolourist and etcher. He was known for his depictions of wartime industrial and architectural settings. He was on the advisory committees for the British War Memorials during the First World War and the War Artists Advisory panel during the Second World War.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 34/1919/19
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Prints
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Common Name
- A Chataeu near Brie on the Somme
- Simple Name
- Inscription Transcription
- Bone; Muirhead Bone; MB
- Period Classification
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Production Town
- ; London; London
- Production Country
- ; United Kingdom: England; United Kingdom: England
- Production Person Initials
- Sir David Muirhead; ; George
- Production Person Surname
- Bone; Country Life Ltd; Newnes Ltd
- Production Year Low
- 1918
- Production Year High
- 1918
