Women’s Land Army in Hampshire

Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864 - 1950)

Watercolour on paper

1940

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    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
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    Artist
    Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864 - 1950)
    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