French Engineers Clearing Wreckage of Bridge, Château-Thierry

Mixed-media drawing in charcoal, gouache and oil shows a stone bridge arch in the foreground beside a riverbank heaped with fallen masonry blocks. Behind, damaged townhouses with broken roofs line the street while small figures in dark uniforms work among earth mounds and rubble.

Artist

Aylward

Date

1918

Medium

charcoal (overall production method/technique) gouache (overall production method/technique) oil (overall production method/technique) paper

Source

Smithsonian (National Museum of American History)

Size

4000 × 3424 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History