File:William Thurston Topham - Opening of the Somme Bombardment.jpg

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William Thurston Topham: Opening of the Somme Bombardment  wikidata:Q116167556 reasonator:Q116167556
Artist
William Thurston Topham  (1888–1966)  wikidata:Q51311133
 
Description Canadian-British painter, war artist and drawer
Date of birth/death 23 July 1888 Edit this at Wikidata 11 March 1966 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Spondon Edit this at Wikidata Montreal Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q51311133
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Title
Opening of the Somme Bombardment
label QS:Len,"Opening of the Somme Bombardment"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre landscape painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: The start of the Somme bombardment as seen from a roadside gun battery, 24 June 1916. The bombardment lasted a week and was intended to obliterate German defences and defenders. The artist, William Topham, depicts high explosive shells and white shrapnel bursts over the enemy lines, and provides a detailed description of his location. At this stage in the bombardment, the terrain, consisting mostly of farmers’ fields, remains relatively unscathed.
Date 24 June 1916 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium watercolor paint and graphite on board Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 9.5 cm (3.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 28.2 cm (11.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+9.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+28.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1032442
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Canadian War Museum
Accession number
19710261-0728 (Canadian War Museum) Edit this at Wikidata
Inscriptions
  • recto:
    T. Topham; June 24th 1916 Edit this at Wikidata
  • verso:
    Opening of the Somme Bombardment seen from the Albert-Bray Roadside
  • recto:
    This sketch was made a few yards from our battery position on the Albert - Braye way side.; This sketch damaged through being sent to England in a friend's haversack edge of set in which we had two guns
  • recto:
    T.T.; CAPTIVE HUN OBSERVATION BALLOON
  • recto:
    BECOURT WOOD
  • recto:
    GUN POSITIONS IN DUGOUT
  • recto:
    H.E. SHELLS BURSTING IN TRENCHES
  • recto:
    FRONT LINE TRENCHES SHEWING WHITE
  • recto:
    THE WHITE PUFFS ARE SHRAPNEL
  • recto:
    FRICOURT VILLAGE LIES BEHIND THE FIRST TREETOP RIDGE
  • recto:
    MAMETZ ON THE FAR HILLSIDE
  • recto:
    VILLAGE OF BÉCIRDEK-BÉCOURT
References https://www.warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1015787 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer https://www.warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1015787

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