Louis Raemaekers charcoal sketch, Undated

Bookseller's description: ...two British foot soldiers carrying a wounded American soldier back from the front. Raemaeker heard of atrocities being committed by the Germans during WWI that were not believed by the people of neutral Netherlands. In 1914 he slipped across the border to Belgium where he became an eye witness to the unspeakable barbarity, transforming this painter of pastoral scenes to the most famous anti-German propagandist of the Great War. His wartime drawings had such an effect on public opinion that the German Imperial government placed a reward for his body, dead or alive causiing him to escape to England. This poignant drawing of exhausted soldiers carrying a wounded comrade from America is stark and powerful. Much of Raemaeker's work is now at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and little of his work is on the open market.