Historical information

Painting by Charlotte Rippert, a German Lutheran Missionary in Egypt, arrested as a security risk in Cairo, 1941. Transported on Queen Elizabeth to Australia and interned at Camp 3 1941-1945.

Physical description

Framed oil painting - Three gum trees in foreground (trunks) - fence and meandering fields in the centre and a blue low-rise hill in the background

Inscriptions & markings

Painting - "C. R. Australia..." (cut off by frame)