Colour note for painting of Rethymnon

Place Europe: Greece, Crete, Retimo
Accession Number ART23866
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 45.4 x 60 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Maker Dargie, William
Place made Greece: Crete
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Rethymnon is discribed in the Official History of the War as "Retimo". Considerable fighting took place in this area in 1941 in which Australians and New Zealand evacuated from Greece, took part. The view is from the west, Crete.