Object Details
- Description
- Charcoal sketch on blue-gray paper. The work depicts a group of soldiers billeted in a cell of the old Monastery of Rangeval near Boucq, France. A drawing on the wall above the sleeping pallets shows France (the woman) killing "the German monster." Soldiers are lounging on cots beneath the drawing. A line of drying laundry hangs on the left side of the sketch.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- date made
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- Credit Line
- War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff
- Physical Description
- charcoal (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 20 in x 17 in; 50.8 cm x 43.18 cm
- Object Name
- sketch
