Generals of the British Army: Portraits in Colour with Introductory and Biographical Notes
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Generals of the British Army: Portraits in Colour with Introductory and Biographical Notes
Generals -- Great Britain; World War, 1914-1918 -- Biography
"Mr. Muirhead Bone has clearly justified the action of H.M.
Government in employing him as an official artistic chronicler
of the greatest of all wars."--_Burlington Magazine._
"Mr. Muirhead Bone's vigorous drawings of the toil and moil of
British warfare and all its circumstantial splendour and
squalor stand in no further need of commendation.... It is a
noble and enduring achievement.... These two drawings alone
assure Lieutenant Bone's place among the immortals."--_Morning
Post._
"Mr. Bone's drawings convey an extraordinary idea of the
abomination and desolation caused by shell fire."--_Field._
"The drawings are of endless interest in their subjects and
excite a natural wonder at the artist's remarkable fertility
and versatility. It is impossible to overestimate the value of
these drawings as a record of the actualities of the
war."--_Scotsman._
"The selection of Mr. Bone is triumphantly justified by
his terrific Tank drawing, which no one's romantic
exaggeration--not Doré's or Hugo's even--could have made more
overwhelming in its onset or more deadly."--_Daily Chronicle._
"Whether it be a speaking drawing of a road liable to be
shelled, or a V.A.D. rest station, or German prisoners coming
down from the front, or, again, the finished sketch of Amiens
Cathedral with the aeroplanes round the spire, or a hospital
ship scene at the quayside, all give a permanent impression of
war scenes and war conditions which can hardly be too highly
commended."--_Bookseller._
"Among the little aristocracy of war pictures, destined to have
permanent value both as history and as art, must certainly be
placed the drawings of Mr. Muirhead Bone."--_Coventry_ Herald.
"The Work grows on us."--_Liverpool Post._
"In selecting Mr. Muirhead Bone for the task of depicting the
varied scenes of activity on the British Front in France and
Flanders, the Government have shown a very wise choice, which
has been justified by the excellent series of drawings now
being published."--_Broad Arrow._
"It cannot be too strongly said that no mere photographic
record can ever approach the great work Mr. Bone is doing in
these sketches.--_Montrose Standard._"
"The Series will certainly be greatly prized."--_Army and Navy
Gazette._
"An eloquent pencil, a dashing stroke, guided by a discerning
brain, and the art of perspective are the requisites for a
successful portrayal of the varied scenes of every battlefield,
and these qualities Mr. Bone possesses to
admiration."--_Aberdeen Journal._
"Of all the records of the war up to date this publication
alone conveys something of the impressiveness that fighting on
the present scale might be expected to give."--_Manchester
Weekly Times._
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