Escape

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi
Accession Number ART26464
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 30.1 x 25 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description brush and brown ink and wash heightened with white, over pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Drawing of man crouching near barbed wire entanglements. Waiting until the guard had passed on, an emaciated prisoner-of-war is ready to slip over, or under, a known spot in the wire entanglements.