- Object type
- Prints and Drawings
- Date
- Production: September 1942
- Artist
- Zinkeisen Doris
- Subject(s)
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British Red Cross
Joint Committee
Joint War Organisation
War
St John Ambulance
St John Ambulance Brigade (1887 - 1968)
Fundraising
Hospital
Nursing - Associated organisation
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British Red Cross (1870 - present)
Joint War Organisation - Associated activity
- War
- Associated event
- War: Second World War (1 September 1939 - 2 September 1945)
- Inscriptions
-
recto: Doris Zinkeisen
- Dimensions
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Height x width (paper size): 552 x 755mm
Height x width x depth (framed size): 682 x 870 x 20mm - Materials and technique
- Watercolour, black chalk and gouache on paper
- Production place
- England
- References
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Kelleway, Philip. Highly Desirable: The Zinkeisen Sisters And Their Legacy. Leiston: Leiston Press. 2008.
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Adam-Suter, Mehzebin. Doris Zinkeisen and the British Red Cross: Brushstrokes from the front lines. British Red Cross, 2025.
Page 51 - Provenance
- Purchased from Murray Johnstone, 1993
- Exhibition history
- Brushstrokes from the Front Lines: Doris Zinkeisen and the British Red Cross , Oxo Gallery, 8 May 2025-11 May 2025
- Catalogue number
- SJA1867.2
Convalescent home for injured soldiers
Country estates were transformed into convalescent homes where St John Ambulance and the British Red Cross nurses could tend to soldiers injured during the Second World War, as shown in this watercolour. These homes provided an essential place for physical and emotional rehabilitation. This sketch is one of several designs for a 3-dimensional diorama taken around the country to raise money for the Joint War Organisation.
