World War I: Red Cross staff helping wounded soldiers into a first aid post set up in a cottage in Flanders. Pencil and gouache drawing by P. Thiriat, 1918.

  • Thiriat, Paul, active approximately 1900-approximately 1920.
Date:
1918
Reference:
583890i
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About this work

Publication/Creation

1918

Physical description

1 drawing : pencil with gouache (oxidised) ; sight 38.2 x 60.5 cm

Lettering

The lighthouse of the battlefield. Red Cross first aid post. Paul Thiriat Flandres 1918 Subject lettering on frame label; signed and dated in pencil on the work

References note

Wellcome Institute, Medicine and surgery in the Great War 1914-1918: an exhibition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the armistice, 11 November 1918, London 1968, no. 37

Reference

Wellcome Collection 583890i

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