Object Details
- Description
- Charcoal and ink wash sketch on paper. This rough sketch depicts a village street with a camouflage apparatus hung over the street. Soldiers are in the thoroughfare, under the camouflage screen. The museum's catalogue card for this drawing reads, "The road through Merviller is on the slope of a hill and is exposed to German observation. But by the use overhead camouflage screening, one strip of which is here shown, the traffic along this road is entirely concealed."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Smith, J. Andre
- date made
- 1918-04
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- Credit Line
- War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff
- Physical Description
- watercolor (overall production method/technique)
- pencil (overall material)
- paper (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 1/2 in x 14 in; 24.13 cm x 35.56 cm
- sketch: 9 3/16 in x 13 1/2 in; 23.368 cm x 34.29 cm
- Object Name
- sketch
