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Key Information

Title:
General Staff of the 3rd Grade
Object Name:
drawing
Artist / Maker:
Ardizzone, Edward
Date/Period:
1944
Location on Display:
Museum - Not Currently on display
Accession No:
KINCM:2006.7160
Other Numbers:
W167
Copyright:
[in copyright]
Brief Description:
Satirical line and watercolour wash drawing entitled 'General Staff of the 3rd Grade' by Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone (1900-1979), 1944. Two British officers in summer army uniforms of kakhi shorts, shirts and long socks, one with large red nose and the other with dark moustache smoking a pipe, facing each other and sitting at an office table with a telephone on the left and waste basket below it on the right. There is a map of the Mediterranean on the wall behind them and other papers stuck to the wall with a tall cabinet on the right. Inscribed below in pen '3's General Staff Officers of the 3rd Grade'.

Physical Information

Medium:
pencil; ink; watercolour
Support:
paper on board

Dimensions:

Type Height Width Depth Diameter Weight
overall 178[mm] 187[mm]