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Looking through a ruined cathedral window on to a battlefield cemetery [picture] / Capt. Frank Hurley
Bib ID 1866119
Format PicturePicture, OnlineOnline
Author
Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
 
Online Versions
Description 1917 
1 photograph : gelatin silver ; 37.5 x 28.5 cm., in mount 52.9 x 40.7 cm. 
Series

Hurley collection of photographic prints.

Notes

Title sources: "Looking through a ruined cathedral window on to a battlefield cemetery"--Caption to published photograph, p. [8] of 1919 catalogue. "47. Looking out of a ruined cathedral window on to the graves of the fallen."--Title within text of 1919 catalogue p. [7]. "Lieutenant (later Sir Hubert) Wilkins in a war cemetery near Ypres, France, in 1917"--Caption to published photograph in Bickel, 1980, p. 66.

Part of collection: Hurley collection of photographic prints.

Related negative in the Hurley negative collection: PIC FH/720.

Main title from photograph caption in 1919 published catalogue.

Condition: Good.

PIC Drawer PL 41 #PIC/FH/10880 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-147383198

Published in: Catalogue of an exhibition or war photographs / Capt. F. Hurley, Official Photographer with the A.I.F., held at The Kodak Salon, Sydney. [1919] p. [8].

Published in: In search of Frank Hurley / Lennard Bickel. South Melbourne : Macmillan, 1980. p. 66.

Exhibited: Shades of light, ANG, 1988; Deja vu, NLA, 1989.

Subjects Wilkins, G. H. (George Hubert), Sir, 1888-1958 -- Portraits.  |  Cemeteries -- Belgium -- Ypres -- Photographs.  |  World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium -- Ypres -- Photographs.  |  Picture -- Bicentennial loan.  |  Picture -- NLA exhibition 1989.
Also Titled

Lieutenant (later Sir Hubert) Wilkins in a war cemetery near Ypres, France, in 1917

Looking out of a ruined cathedral window on to the graves of the fallen

Exhibited Exhibited: In a New Light: Australian Photography 1850s-1930s, National Library of Australia, 9 October 2003 - 26 January 2004. 

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