The town, Mersa Matruh

Place Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), Mersa Matruh
Accession Number ART30080
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 30.2 x 49 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour on paper
Maker Herbert, Harold
Place made Egypt
Date made 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

The town - The colourless town of Mersa Matruh from the hills on the outskirts near the railway yards. With the exception of a few renovated buildings, villas etc, the town is a mass of crumbling ruins and dust'.