Author: DROST, FRÉ (DRAUGHTSMAN/ILLUSTRATOR],
Title: Oorlogswinter 1944. [title on front cover].
Description: Rotterdam, Drukkerij Reclame, 1945. Small oblong folio, original qtr. cloth backed printed boards porfolio. [2]pp. of text, introduction and provenance, with together 14 black/white offset reproductions after original black crayon drawings by Fré Drost, with printed captions and artists name at tail margins, tipped-in on 14 stiff thin cardboard leaves, [each overall sized 36x30cm.), numbered 1-14. Illustrations after drawings commemmorate hardships and famine of the dutch population of the Western part of the Netherlands durich the last winter of Nazi oppression, 1944-1945. Limited and numbered edition of 200 copies only, this copy bears nr. 197. Good copy. Rare and complete set. (versos of cardboard leaves spotted, rectos with tipped-inn plates very fine and clean).

Keywords: nazi oppression second worldwar famine winter occupation commemmoration hardship history fré droste fine art drawings crayon holland dutch malnutrion