Blood Transfusion on a dangerously ill Native; [Hospital Jeep]

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Accession Number ART29202.019
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 24 x 27.8 cm; image: 21 x 23 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and ink on paper; pen and blue ink on paper
Maker Heysen, Nora
Place made New Guinea1
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

This is a study of a man who watches a medical assistant as he inserts a needle into his right arm for the blood transfusion. The other medical assistant holds the patients arm still at the shoulder while the overall sketch is incomplete, there is a detailed study of the patient's face.

Verso: This is a pencil study of a jeep and the back of a driver who is seated at the steering wheel.

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