Context- 'Feb. Saturday 15, 1919. Took a boy to carry my bag & walked down the Valley of Death again to make more studies of it, as it may be for one of my eventual pictures. I made three successful drawings fr Art.IWMART2682, Sydney Carline

Context: 'feb. Saturday 15, 1919. Took a boy to carry my bag & walked down the valley of death again to make more studies of it, as it may be for one of my eventual pictures. I made three successful drawings from different places, chiefly from the top of the hill looking down onto it. ' from sydney carline's diary. See iwm art 3138, for a related study. Image: a view across the wadi fara showing the road through the gorge leading to the plain in the background. The valley side to the right is marked with a series of terraces. Date: 1919 (First World War, Interwar).