2-716-418 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Green Shutters: Viaticum, Belgium', 1918, (c1930). Old woman and child in the snow outside a house where someone has recently died, indicated by the cross on the doorstep. The Viaticum is the Catholic ceremony for a dying person, part of the Last Rites. Painting in the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear. From "Modern Masterpieces of British Art". [The Amalgamated Press Ltd., London, c1930]