| Accession Number | ART28339.001 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | sheet: 38.2 x 25.6 cm |
| Object type | Work on paper |
| Physical description | pencil on paper |
| Maker |
Richmond, Oliffe |
| Place made | New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Lae |
| Date made | September 1944 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright |
NGDD Lae, Sept. 44
Description
A pencil drawing of four Australian soldiers in wet-weather clothes walking around a muddy tent area at the New Guinea Deployment Depot in Lae.
- [Figure study- reclining figure]
- [Sleeping digger]
- [Sleeping digger]
- recto: [Standing digger with life belt on shoulder]; verso: [Standing digger with life belt on shoulder]
- [Mother and child]
- [Men resting]
- recto: [Figure study]; verso: [Figure study]
- recto: [Figure study- standing soldier with life belt]; verso: [Figure study]
- [Figure study- rear of native]
- recto: [Figure study- soldier from rear]; verso: [Figure study]
- [Figure study]
- [Diggers climbing on a truck]
- [Soldiers putting on their packs]
- Royal Park
- [Resting soldiers]
- [Figure study]