IMAGE
Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991 :The peashooter (Comment on N.Z.'s contribution to Malay Force - 1 company of infantry). [1955]
- Date
- 1955
- By
- Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991
- Reference
- C-132-874
- Description
Shows the Prime Minister Sid Holland in a shooting outfit and top hat, using a long bamboo peashooter to send a small missile towards the Malayan Peninsula. He has a rifle slung over his back and two grenades at his belt.
Dated from Ian Grant's "The unauthorised version" (Auckland, 1980), where it appears with the title "Whoosh".
Other Titles - Whoosh
Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).
Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 333 x 482 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991 :[Twenty-eight (28) original cartoons, 1940s and 1950s].
- Format
- 1 original cartoon(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Cartoons (Commentary), Caricatures, Ink drawing, on sheet 333 x 482 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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