Chinese [labourer] from Muar Malay

Place Asia: Malaya, Johore, Muar Area
Accession Number ART24412
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 38 x 28 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description sanguine conte crayon on paper
Maker Abbott, Harold
Place made Thailand
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

Portrait of a Chinese-born Malay labourer from the Muar River area. The subject has been pictured after his liberation from the Japanese who had pressed him, along with many of his compatriots, into labour gangs for shipment to other territories under Japanese occupation.