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Burning couch-grass

Burning couch-grass
 1917
plate 45 from the Work on the land set, in The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals series, commissioned by the British Department of Information; published by the Fine Arts Society, London, 1917

Medium
lithograph
Measurements
35.6 × 46.6 cm (image) 41.1 × 51.6 cm (sheet)
Edition
edition of 200
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: W. R. 1917
chopmark (in image) l.r.: (lion and unicorn beside crowned shield; royal coat of arms)
label formerly on old mount, printed in ink u.l.: Professor William Rothenstein. / BURNING COUCH-GRASS. / A / 45
Accession Number
937-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the Government of Great Britain, 1919
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Agriculture Labour, Industry and Machinery Military and Warfare
Subjects (specific)
carts farming (activity or system) farms forks (agricultural tools) horse (species) labour World War I (global war, 1914-1918)