ART21343 - Unloading a Dutch ship
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial
- ID number
- ART21343
- Title
- Unloading a Dutch ship
- Artist
- Mainwaring, Geoffrey
- Object type
- Drawing
- Place made
- Papua New Guinea: Papua, Milne Bay
- Date made
- July 1943
- Medium
- pen and ink, watercolour on paper
- Measurement
- Overall: 40.6 x 56.3 cm
- Collection
- Art
- Description
- The dangers faced by merchant seamen in the Pacific war are well illustrated in this work by official war artist Geoffrey Mainwaring. A Dutch KPM vessels (possibly the Van Heutz) is unloaded at Gili Gili wharf, while the Chinese steamer Anshun, which was sunk by Japanese cruisers on the night of 6-7 September 1942, lies on its side nearby.
