[Falcon and Toad]

'Falcon and Toad' is a rare and unusual image by a Japanese prisoner-of-war painted at the Hay internment camp in New South Wales. It depicts a bird, a falcon or an eagle, emerging from a dark cloud at the top of the painting. At the bottom of the painting a large toad sits on a rock with white vapour exuding from its mouth. The painting was given to Major Llewellyn Sheargold Humphrey, Camp Commander at the Hay internment Camp, New South Wales, 1945-46, as a gift by the Japanese POW who painted the work.