Women’s Land Army in Hampshire
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About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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- Subjects
- farmer/farm labourer, WW2 art, genre, cow, woman, girl, overalls, World War II, path, house, farm, thatched roof
- Materials & Techniques
- paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)
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Details
- Title
- Women’s Land Army in Hampshire
- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- height: 39.50 cm, width: 58.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Presented via the Imperial War Museum, War Artists' Advisory Committee, April 1946
- Inscription
- bl: A. S. Hartrick ; bc: The Land army in Hampshire. Milkers on a 14th Century Farm ; verso: The Womens' Land army in Hampshire / Milkers on Court Farm tall one the daughter (of) an Admiral / Lee-on -Solent Small one - girl of 16 / These girls (woke?) up at 5.30 all through the winter/to milk cows at 6.30 Of course the journey to the farm / was done in black darkness and for weeks in snow last winter / In summer they rise at 3.30am to start milking at 4.30/am
- GAC number
- 85