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Shell bursting. Passchendaele

Print
1918 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print depicting a shell exploding on a battlefield with ruined buildings, bare trees and churned-up ground.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleShell bursting. Passchendaele (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph on paper
Brief description
'Shell bursting. Passchendaele', lithograph, Paul Nash, 1918
Physical description
Print depicting a shell exploding on a battlefield with ruined buildings, bare trees and churned-up ground.
Dimensions
  • Length: 26.04cm
  • Height: 35.88cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1960 and 1961 London: HMSO 1964
Marks and inscriptions
  • Paul Nash 1918 (Signed and dated in pencil)
  • To my dove (Inscribed by the artist)
  • Liverpool (Inscribed in another hand with title and on the back)
Object history
A watercolour of the same subject (in reverse) was formerly in the collection of Arnold Bennett.
Subjects depicted
Association
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1960 and 1961 London: HMSO, 1964
Collection
Accession number
E.4794-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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