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The Night Watch: Guardroom at Poperinghe Barracks
Harry Blacker1943
Ben Uri
London, United Kingdom
Poperinghe Barracks is in Arborfield, Berkshire. During the Second World War, cartoonist Harry 'Nero' Blacker served as a sergeant in the Royal Artillery and taught signwriting to servicemen before they were demobbed. His woodcuts from this period show humour, an eye for detail and a decisive use of line.
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- Title: The Night Watch: Guardroom at Poperinghe Barracks
- Creator: Harry Blacker (Nero)
- Date Created: 1943
- Physical Dimensions: 23.5 x 33 cm, framed: 44 x 59 x 2.7 cm
- Type: woodcut
- Rights: © Harry Blacker (Nero) estate
- Medium: woodcut on paper
- Art Form: woodcut
- Support: paper
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