Japanese guards buying vegetables, March 1945

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi
Accession Number ART25082
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 36.1 x 44.7 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen, brush and ink over pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
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

This composition depicts the Japanese guards from the prisoner-of-war camps in Changi area purchasing the better class vegetables for themselves from Chinese stalls, Australians providing improvised trailer for transport.