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Gordon Highlanders: Officers' Mess
Bone, Sir W. Muirhead, 1916, Publisher's print
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33568
Title
Gordon Highlanders: Officers' Mess
Description
Accompanying text reads:
"In the bare dancing hall of a village inn behind the Somme Front. The artist has found means to interpret with the utmost sympathy and power the extraordinary romantic quality that there often is about a Highland mess in France, created by the rude setting, the primitive half light amidst cavernous gloom, and the spectator's sense of an enveloping world of strange dangers and adventures."
Artist / maker
Bone, Sir W. Muirhead
Date
1916
Size
14.4 x 21.4 cm
Type
Publisher's print
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Crown Copyright
You can find more information on the
Gordon Highlanders
on the web site, The Long, Long, Trail: the British Army in the Great War, 1914-1918.
Muirhead Bone was Britain's first official war artist and also a driving force behind the foundation of the Imperial War Museum. Find out more about the history and collections of the museum from the
Imperial War Museum
website.
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Muirhead Bone and World War One
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