Page from a sketchbook of 29 sheets of charcoal and white wash drawings by William Barns Wollen, signed ‘W B Wollen’ on the front inside cover 1917 (c).
Studies for the oil painting, ‘Our “Little Contemptibles”’, 1917 (c).
The sketches show figures of British officers and men from the early stages of World War One (1914-1918). Wollen’s resulting oil painting shows a firing line of stoic ‘Tommies’ of the British Expeditionary Force, checking advancing German troops.
Associated with World War One (1914-1918).