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Accession Number | ART90933 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 39.4 x 30.5 x 3.4cm |
Object type | Artist's book |
Physical description | drypoints printed on Japanese Mulberry paper mounted on watercolour paper; watercolour on paper |
Maker |
Parkin, Ray |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne |
Date made | 1943-1956 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
A folio of drypoints from drawings made in captivity 1942-1945: embossed olive-green faux leather volume containing 35 pages of prints and one watercolour of figures, landscapes and vessels
Description
A folio of drypoints from drawings made in captivity 1942-1945 on the Burma-Thailand railway. The cover is embossed olive green paper (faux leather), stitched with green paper and lined with green shot silk. The volume contains 35 pages, with 33 prints and one watercolour of figures, landscapes and vessels. Each page has printed inscriptions.
- Man
- The destruction of the Perth, February 28th 1942
- The lifeboat at Princes Island
- The wake of conquest, Java
- The gate, Bandang
- Hot-water service, Bandaeng
- The house of Laurens van der Post, Bandang
- Basketball at Makasura
- Guard house, Makasura
- Embarkation, Tanjeong Priok
- Water queue, en route Java to Singapore
- Hold accommodation, en route Java to Singapore
- Sea cameo, Tanjeong Priok
- Entering Singapore
- Singapore Harbour
- The river at Konyu
- The duet, Hintoku River
- Ox cart, Hintoku Road Camp
- Tamil jungle shrine, Hintok River
- Water chain, Hintoku River
- Tents at Hintoku
- Sick parade, Hintoku River Camp
- Graves, Hintok River
- Elephant hills, Tamuan
- Wayside shrine, Thailand
- Attap barges, Tamuan
- Family mart under the mango, Tamuan
- As stated: Ray Parkin's hat
- Saviours of sanitation, Tamuan
- Gravel party and bamboo rafts at Tamuan
- River craft at Tamuan
- Will o' the wisp beetle
- End page of the folio of drypoints and one watercolour from drawings made in captivity 1942-1945
- For Weary
- Title page for folio of drypoints from drawings made in captivity 1942-1945
- Poem