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black pen and ink blue-grey wash on wove paper (verso printed map fragment)
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watercolor, bodycolour and ink washes with ink outline, graphite underdrawing (verso: graphite, ink inscription at edge), on wove paper
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Bentley, Richard
Cook, John
Cook, John Kingsley
Cook, John William
Low, Hugh
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'A Corner of the camp. Méchéria' [Mecheria] (Drawing)
'Rehearsing for swimming gala. Foreign Legion, Saïda' [Saida] (Drawing)
'The Mate' (Drawing)
'Spahis and man with bayonet' (Drawing)
'Violinist and reader' (Drawing)
'Algerian Guard at Bône' [Bone] (Drawing)
'List made in the lifeboat to divide the watches' (Drawing)
'Prisoners and guards in a wind' (Drawing)
'Man playing guitar and others. Malta' (Drawing)
'Changing watch in the wheelhouse' (Drawing)
'Sunday afternoon. The guards at Bône' [Bone] (Drawing)
'Loading at night, Savannah' (Watercolour)
'Arab guard in train to Méchéria' [Mecheria] (Drawing)
View of ships near the coast (Drawing)
'Empire Guillemot in a high sea' (Drawing)
'Study of a dung beetle' (Drawing)
'Liberty boat taking sailors off' (Drawing)
'Bathing in Valetta harbour' (Drawing)
'The camp. Méchéria [Mecheria]. Early morning' (Drawing)
'Bône [Bone]. Early morning' (Watercolour)
'Indoor games, Bône' [Bone] (Drawing)
'Breakdown in the engine room looking through the gratings' (Drawing)
Sketch of a sailor seen from the back (Drawing)
'Goum' (Drawing)
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