• Title
  Somewhere in France / Vasco
• Creator
  Vasco Urbano Loureiro, 1882-1918
• Call number
  SV/365
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1917
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  9647426
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 33 x 20.5 cm - charcoal, wash, and watercolour on paper
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Louis Vasco was born Vasco Loureiro in Brixton, London in 1882. His father, Arthur Jose Loureiro was an accomplished artist, originally from Portugal. The family emigrated to Australia in 1885 and Vasco grew up in Melbourne, studying at the National Gallery of Victoria from 1902-1905.
  Vasco enlisted in the A.I.F. in 1916 and was deployed to France in May 1917. He died of menangitis on 3 August 1918 and was buried at St Alban's Hatfield Road Cemetery, London.
  In 1920, Louis' wife sold a collection of over 200 sketches, letters and postcards by the artist to the State Library of New South Wales World War One Collecting Project.
  
  Reference
  Library correspondence file
• Collection history
  By descent from vendor's father.
• Scope and Content
  A caricature of a World War I Australian soldier with a kangaroo who is holding a rifle.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed by artist on lower right: 'Vasco'
• Date note
  
  Dated by artist on lower right: '1917'
• Subject
  Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)
  World War, 1914-1918--Pictorial works.
  Kangaroos--Pictorial works.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20795433

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