Place | Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby |
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Accession Number | ART29857 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | sheet: 21.4 x 27.8 cm; image: 19.2 x 26.8 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | pencil and watercolour on paper on cardboard |
Maker |
Ashton, Richard |
Place made | New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby |
Date made | 12 August 1942 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright |
"Ben", correspondents hut
Description
A portrait of "Ben", a Port Moresby native, as he sits and washes clothes in a large metal container for the correspondents hut.