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36. Ypres: The Cloth Hall.

Temporary: Order 296/Perry Paintings/1/36 Contains digital media

Details

Type of record: Temporary

Related people: Perry, Robert Charles, 1892-1965.

Date(s): 19/07/1917

Size and medium: 1 painting

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/105743

Description: Painting includes legend: "Cloth Hall, Ypres, 19/7/17". On reverse: "36. Ypres: The Cloth Hall in 1917. Sketched from the shelter of a wall near the old Menin Gate. The holes in the Tower were not made by mice and there was usually something dead lying about The Grand Place; You crossed it at the double. The Hall was later flattened out and when re-building was begun apres la Guerre fini a company of sixty men was found under debris."