World War Two: men, all with various limbs missing, in a hospital camp playing at cards. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, 1944.

  • Rawlings, Leo, -1990.
Date:
1944
Reference:
24133i
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About this work

Publication/Creation

1944

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour, with pencil ; image 25.8 x 36.1 cm

Lettering

'The limbless' L.Rawlings Printed lettering attached to the mount reads: "hospital camp, Changi, Singapore. the Japanese considered these men as being of no further use as human beings and as such were put onto half rations"

Notes

On the same mount is a second painting of the same camp (this catalogue no. 24134i)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 24133i

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