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Soldier in uniform writing in a notebook, charcoal drawing – Historic Print

Soldier in uniform writing in a notebook, charcoal drawing — historic drawing
Soldier in uniform writing in a notebook, charcoal drawing. Historic drawing from the Family Life collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

A window into the past: Soldier in uniform writing in a notebook, charcoal drawing, preserved in this historic drawing. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Soldier in uniform writing in a notebook, charcoal drawing

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A soldier in full uniform sits bent over a small notebook, his attention fixed on the page, in this charcoal drawing. The soft, smudged tones of the medium give the scene an unhurried, intimate quality, the sort of moment a sketch artist might catch between duties. Drawings like this one often record ordinary routines of military life, such as letter writing and keeping journals, which were common among men far from home. Its place on a board of gentlemen and family life suggests the figure was seen as a private person as much as a soldier.

Original scan2,515 × 3,174 px · prints to 8 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceVAL-19

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