Place | Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne |
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Accession Number | ART28404.002 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 18.5 x 13.6 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | brush and coloured inks and gouache over pencil on paper |
Maker |
Griffin, Murray |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne |
Date made | 1945-1946 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Not titled [Two prisoners working in garden (frontispiece for proposed 8th Division book)]
Description
Colour sketch of two Australian prisoners of war toiling in a garden. Originally designed to be the frontispiece for a proposed book about the 8th Division AIF's experiences in Malaya, it was drawn after Murray Griffin was repatriated in 1945.