Historical information
Painted and used at Internment camp 3.
Physical description
Watercolour painting of "Cairo Courtyard" on wooden board, wide brown wooden frame
Inscriptions & markings
C. Rippert.
On back: "Numurkah Butter Factory, Victoria, Australia. 54 lbs nett. Produced in the district of Numurkah. "Pure Creamery Butter". G. Glockemann - Hornsby.
On a sticker "Gemalde" Von Frau Rippert Ruckseite Des Bildes Von Historischem Interesse.
Frau Charlotte Rippert, the artist, was a German Lutheran Missionary in Egypt in the 1930's. Interned by British in Cairo and transported to Australia on the Queen Elizabeth, arriving in Sydney, 31 August 1941.
