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Marching Down to the Station

Alan Sorrell (1904–1974)

Manchester Art Gallery

Marching Down to the Station

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Moonlit landscape scene showing rows of identical figures marching, three-abreast, downhill into the distance; the procession moves along a road on a steep gradient, which is flanked by high, wooded banks and has a line of telegraph poles alongside the figures. At the base of the hill is a valley shrouded in mist; on the horizon is a low hill with the forms of buildings, including a square church-tower, silhouetted against the light of the moon, which is seen through the branches of foreground trees.

Manchester Art Gallery

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Title

Marching Down to the Station

Date

1945

Medium

acrylic on paper

Measurements

H 32.5 x W 43.6 cm

Accession number

1947.413

Acquisition method

gift from HM Government, War Artists Advisory Committee, 1947

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed at right bottom corner: Alan Sorrell 1945 inscrip (blc): Marching Away

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Alan Sorrell

1904–1974

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