Illustration for "Salt cover parade"

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number ARTI04572
Collection type Art
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and black ink and pencil and watercolour on paper
Maker Belcher, Douglas Leonard
Date made 14 August 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Illustration for the front cover of 'Salt', a small journal that informed and entertained Australian servicemen and women during the Second World War. The drawing depicts a soldier in the foreground wearing a helmet and holding up a rifle. Behind him the sun sets over a landscape of mountains with river meandering through. An hourglass can be seen in the lower right foreground.

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