Landscape scene

Places
Accession Number ART91553.003
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 12.6 x 20.2 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Ueki, Shizu
Place made New Guinea1, Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Area, Rabaul
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Depicts a landscape scene , with trees in the foreground and a volcano in the background. Shizu Ueki was a Japanese nurse who worked as a civilian nurse with the 8th Naval Hospital in Rabaul, New Guinea from 1942-43. She presented a photo album containing photographs, pencil and watercolour sketches and pressed flower specimens to the War Memorial in 2001.