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 : A Visit to the Alpini - 19**? by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1


A Visit to the Alpini - 19**? by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1

The war was over some time ago, but this man hasn't heard about it yet, and nobody can get up to tell him. His sniping is therefore very annoying to that Austrian village in the valley.
Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, one of a number drawn during his visit to the Italian Front in 1918. This particular illustration, showing a lone Alpini, unaware that the war is over, was considered by the American artist Charles Dana Gibson to be Bairnsfather's finest

Picture No
10837405
Media ID
46091988
Size
3902px x 5897px (5.8MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander', 27 March 1918, page 659
Date
1918

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