Study for 'Over The Top' (IWM ART 1656)
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- Production date
- 1918
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- Materials
- medium: Pencil
- medium: Watercolour
- medium: chalk
- medium: ink
- support: paper
- Dimensions
- Support: Height 317 mm
- Support: Width 431 mm
- Mount: Height 561 mm
- Mount: Width 646 mm
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- art
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 without
looking back. They walk beneath a grey, stormy sky, with clouds from shell and gunfire in the distance.
History note
Ministry of Information Commission, Scheme 2. Commission administration transferred to Imperial War
Museum
Inscription
3907. Nash, J. Study for the oil painting (Over the Top)
Inscription
Imperial War Museum Art Dept.
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