Lot 1707
‡GERALD SPENCER PRYSE
A TANK OFFERING FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE TO BRITISH NURSES, 1915
Lithograph poster, without lettering, for The Nation's Fund for Nurses, printed by Vioncent Brooks Day & Sons Ltd
72.5 x 49.5cm approx.
Exhibited: Salisbury, Young Gallery, 'Terrain & Conflict: Repercussions', November - December 2018
* During the Great War, Pryse produced a considerable body of lithographic work. This was based on his time in France and Belgium at the beginning of the war when he drove around in a Mercedes carrying lithographic stones in the back. He served as a dispatch rider for the Belgian government and was present at the Siege of Antwerp.
Pryse had made an application to become a war artist and, towards the end of the war, was granted permission to sketch at the front and he was able to record the conditions of trench warfare in numerous watercolour drawings, but many of these were lost in the German offensive of 1918. The remaining drawings were exhibited later in London and were described as having "a freshness and authenticity that were not always apparent in the works of the official war artists".
