Merviller
National Museum of American History

Merviller

War Department · 1918-04

watercolor (overall production method/technique)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

Charcoal and ink wash sketch on paper. This rough sketch depicts a village street with a camouflage apparatus hung over the street. Soldiers are in the thoroughfare, under the camouflage screen. The museum's catalogue card for this drawing reads, "The road through Merviller is on the slope of a hill and is exposed to German observation. But by the use overhead camouflage screening, one strip of which is here shown, the traffic along this road is entirely concealed."

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