False quiet

p XVIII, water colour,
Kennington, 55 x 125 mm

Landscape view. Main colours: dark grey/brown foreground [land] and brown at top [clouds], bright green sky, fleecy golden clouds.

p 597 [tr ed p 607] - 'It was a notable evening, yellow, mild and indescribably peaceful; a foil to our incessant cannonades. The declining light shone down the angle of the ridges, its soft rays modelling them and their least contour in a delicate complexity of planes. Then the sun sank another second, and the surface became shadow, out of which for a moment there rose, starkly, the innumerable flints strewing it; each western (reflecting) facet tipped like a black diamond with flame.'

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