Place | Asia: Singapore, Changi |
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Accession Number | ART90378.009 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | sheet: 18.7 x 12.2 cm; recto top image: 9.2 x 12.2 cm; recto bottom image: 9.5 x 12.0 cm; verso top image: 6 x 12.2 cm; verso bottom image: 12.7 x 12.1 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | pencil, blue pen and ink on paper |
Maker |
Campbell, Edward Stewart |
Place made | Singapore: Changi, Singapore: Changi |
Date made | 21 October 1944 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
recto top image: Not titled [tank and aircraft]; recto bottom image: Not titled [beach scene]; verso top image: Not titled [homestead]; verso bottom image: Not titled [incomplete portrait sketches]
Description
recto top image: tank featuring a kind of 'nose art', which is a drawing of an angel holding a Devil's pitchfork with the words 'Hell's Angel' on either side of her. Overhead flies an aircraft. recto bottom image: A soldier is sitting on a tropical beach looking out at the ocean. verso top image: sketch of an Australian homestead; verso bottom image: incomplete portrait sketches of several unidentified men.