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How they are produced by Bruce Bairnsfather

An autobiographical cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather showing how he produces his famous Fragments in France, cartoons showing life for the typical British Tommy on the Western Front during World War One. A series of sketches show Bairnsfather sketching, wrapped up warm in a trench of dug out, and then in a shelled building before, injured and convalescing in bed, he continues to draw

Picture No
13990616
Media ID
45427990
Size
3600px x 5245px (2.4MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, 24 May 1916
Date
1916

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Autobiographical Bairnsfather Cartoonist Cartoonists Convalescing Draw Fragments Shelled Sketches Sketching


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