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Study for 'Over The Top' (IWM ART 1656)
object description: image: a squared up preparatory drawing for the oil painting 'Over the Top' (IWM ART 1656). On the left, a red earth
trench lined with duckboards stretches away from the viewer. A group of soldiers clamber from the trench, going 'over the top'. Two lie
dead in the trench and another has fallen lying face down in the snow. Those who have survived plod forward towards the right…
Creator
- Europeana
Subject
- Death
- Military Personnel
- Action
- Natural phenomena / time / weather
- trench / defences
- Uniforms
- Landscape
- British Army 1914-1918
- Royal Naval Division 1914-1918
- Western Front 1914-1918
- Landscape art
Type of item
- art
- Art
Date
- 1918
- 1918
Medium
- Pencil
- Watercolour
- chalk
- ink
- paper
- Chalk
- Paper
- Watercolor
Creator
- Europeana
Subject
- Death
- Military Personnel
- Action
- Natural phenomena / time / weather
- trench / defences
- Uniforms
- Landscape
- British Army 1914-1918
- Royal Naval Division 1914-1918
- Western Front 1914-1918
- Landscape art
Type of item
- art
- Art
Date
- 1918
- 1918
Medium
- Pencil
- Watercolour
- chalk
- ink
- paper
- Chalk
- Paper
- Watercolor
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- © IWM (Art.IWM ART 3907)
Places
- France
- Great Britain GB
- Germany (pre 1945 and post 1990) DE
Provenance
- Imperial War Museums
Identifier
- http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20023
- Art.IWM ART 3907
- object-20023
- 20023
- http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20023
Extent
- Height: mm 317 (Support)Width: mm 431 (Support)
- Height: mm 561 (Mount)Width: mm 646 (Mount)
Year
- 1918
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-02T18:34:56.537Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2014-04-03T15:39:48.043Z