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This is one of 262 drawings and two paintings presented to the Museum by the artist's family in 2012, and related to John Kingsley Cook's wartime service in the merchant navy between December 1940 and August 1945. This was drawn while Cook was in captivity in Algeria, between October 1941 and November 1942. He and his fellow survivors spent their first weeks of captivity in Bône (Bone), before being transferred to the camp of Méchéria (Mecheria), in the Atlas mountains, in January 1942. Sketch of street scene with horse and possibly circus entertainers. Painted on a piece of canvas glued to the back of a print pasted on board.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

Fête (fete) on 14th July 1942. Put on by Prisoners at Méchéria (Mecheria)

Date

1942

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 36 x W 47 cm

Accession number

ZBA5458

Acquisition method

presented by the artist's family, 2012

Work type

Painting

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Artist or maker

John Kingsley Cook

1911–1994

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Fête (fete) on 14th July 1942. Put on by Prisoners at Méchéria (Mecheria) National Maritime Museum
Playing Volleyball. Méchéria (Mecheria) Internment Camp National Maritime Museum
French and Arab Prisoners at Mecheria Internment Camp, Algeria Imperial War Museum London