Print made by James McBey, 1883–1959, British, The Somme Front, 1917
- Title:
- The Somme Front
- Date:
- 1917
- Materials & Techniques:
- Drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 1/2 × 16 1/4 inches (21.6 × 41.3 cm), Image: 6 3/4 × 14 1/2 inches (17.1 × 36.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen, lower left: "XXVII"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "H 174 The Somme Front 14 1/2 x 21 7/8 A43617"
Watermark: grapes
Lettered inside image, lower right: "McBey 1917"
Signed in pen, lower left: "James McBey"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B1994.4.1256
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- artillery | battlefields | landscape | military art | war | world war | World War, 1914-1918
- Associated Places:
- Combles | France | Somme
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:23201
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The ruined landscape represents what was once the village of Combles, destroyed during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Against the sky on the left are two heavy guns, with camouflage netting over them. Gallery label for Doomed Youth The Poetry and the Pity of World War I (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26)
Doomed Youth The Poetry and the Pity of World War I (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
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