"On the Road to Tripoli - a Cup of Tea for the Burial Party"

Edward Jeffrey Irving, "On the Road to Tripoli - a Cup of Tea for the Burial Party," Oil on Canvas 800mm × 616mm, 1943

Irving was assigned to paint portraits of the war by the War Arts Advisory Committee, he traveled to war zones in order to record images that he would later paint. I chose this piece because it displayed a sense of sorrow. It also displayed the terrible truth of how causal and common death is in war.