From:Rocky Hill War Memorial Museum
Name/TitleAutograph album
About this objectA maroon leather covered autograph album with front and back inside pages covered in a light green leaf pattern. The pages are in various shades of creams, pinks, greens with gold filigree around the outside edges.
The album contains many amazing drawings/ paintings, as well notes and jokes written by soldiers during World War 1.
These pictures show just a selection of the drawings within this album, with the entire album available in the attached PDF.
MakerUnknown
Maker RoleCreator
Date Madec. 1900
PeriodEarly-20th-Century
Place MadeThe Western Front
Place NotesSome of the signatures within the album list their location as France, but we can't be certain where all the pictures/ autographs were done.
Medium and Materialscardboard, paper, ink, pencil
Style and IconographyHand drawing
Style and IconographyCartoon
TechniqueDrawing
TechniquePainting
Measurements200mm x 165mm x 25 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsAustralian Military Forces
Subject and Association KeywordsDaily Life
Subject and Association KeywordsBritish Army
Subject and Association DescriptionAutograph books were traditionally exchanged among friends, colleagues, classmates and relatives to fill in with poems, drawings, personal messages, small pieces of verse and other mementoes.
Object TypeDrawings
Object number2024.801.3
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved
PDF Files2024_801_3.pdf
