Jungle sketch

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number ART92313
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 13.6 x 8.4 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and ink on paper
Maker Browning, George Julian
Place made New Guinea1
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright

Description

Sketch of trees and ground foliage.

Browning was commissioned to gather visual information along the Kokado track for the production of a series of dioramas back in Australia. In order to capture the details of the tropical environment Browning created a combination of watercolours sketches along with a series pen and pencil drawings. His decision to use pen and pencil was made to more accurately record botanical details that the blobbiness of watercolour might miss.

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