Taking the Wounded on Board (Signed) (Lithograph) (Sir Muirhead Bone) (1917/1918)

Print of artist Sir David Muirhead Bone’s pencil drawing ‘Taking the Wounded on Board’ about 1917. This drawing forms part of a green paper folder “edition de luxe” of signed proofs: 10 prints made from the War Drawings of Muirhead Bone, Part Four.

The drawing depicts the embarking of injured soldiers onto the hospital ship HMS Western Australia back to Britain from Rouen. In the background, Muirhead Bone depicts in remarkable detail the promenade Quai de la Borse of Rouen, which was consequently almost entirely destroyed during the Second World War. Muirhead Bone travelled to France on the 16 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He would have drawn this shortly after that time. He was the first official British war artist of the First World War.

Signed by the artist in pencil to lower right.

Condition: some light surface wrinkling to extremities.