In one of these drawings, Mr. Bone gives a rousing glimpse of trench life at a moment of action. These are its moments of transfiguration, when all the glow of courage, that has been banked down and husbanded through the months of waiting and guarding, bursts, at a word of command, into flame. The rest of trench life is work, contrivance and observation. It has been called monotonous.
An edition of The Western Front
(1917)
The western front
by Bone, Muirhead Sir
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A series of sketches, drawings and paintings from the 'Ruined Tower of Becordel-Becourt' to the 'The Giant Slotters,' Mr. Bone's sketches give us a unique eyewitness account of life on the Western Front.
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Art and the war, Cartoons, paintings, Drawing, Drawings, Pictorial works, World War, 1914-1918, World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746, Eerste Wereldoorlog, Tekeningen, World War, 1914-1918, in artPlaces
Albert, Arras, Bazentin, Becordel-Becourt, Boulogne, Carency, Cassel, Contalmaison, Delville, Flanders, Foureaux, Fricourt, Mametz, Mont St. Eloi, Montauban, Peronne, Picardy, Somme, Souchez, Thelus, Thiepval, YpresTimes
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Edition Notes
Title from portfolio.
Also issued in 2 bound volumes, with additional text and indexes.
British artists at thee front, issued in 1918, is a continuation of these drawings.
Title page in 1st fascicle has imprint: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1917.
Each portfolio contains 100 plates, with text, issued in fascicles of 20 plates each.
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added by George.
I can only imagine what being in the trenches on the front was actually like.
The breech is open: underneath it, hidden from sight, the mechanics are at work. Such a scene has a special appeal to those who loves Jules Verne in their youth. Those largest of all guns seem as if they could fulfil the hopes of Verne's sanguine President of the Gun Club and justify his fervid belief in ballistics as your only science.
added by George.
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