Description
Portrait of a Chinese-born labourer from Malaya. The subject has been pictured after his liberation from the Japanese who had pressed him, along with many of his compatriots, into labour gangs for shipment to the former British Borneo territories of Sarawak, Brunei, and North Borneo (Sabah) that were under Japanese occupation.
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Accession Number
ART24414
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: sanguine conte crayon
Measurement
Overall: 38 cm x 27.8 cm
Medium
sanguine conte crayon on paper
Credit Line
acquired under official war art scheme 1946
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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