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On the Rhine Bridge

Raemaekers, Louis, 1919, Chromolithograph
On the Rhine Bridge
On the Rhine Bridge
On the Rhine Bridge
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Item no
33507
Title
On the Rhine Bridge
Description
"Tommy to Poilu: 'We'd better sit here.'"

"It's a queer world. I never thought I should be standing one night on a bridge over the Rhine, with a bayonet in my hand, holding up every blessed German who hadn't got a pass. They are not allowed to walk on their own bridges now, after blowing up everybody else's. The longer we sit here the better they'll learn that you can't go ramping over Europe with a stick of dynamite and not expect some one to object. - From a Private's letter to his Mother, December 1918."
Artist / maker
Date
1919
Size
33.1 x 25.4 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.