Filters
Filters (4 applied)
Clear All- has image : yes (remove)
- has sound : no (remove)
- maker : Lambert, George (remove)
- related places : Africa: Egypt (remove)
-
type (1)
-
has video (1)
-
Conflict (2)
-
related units (10)
Collection
36 Results
-
An Egyptian girl, Cairo
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of woman wearing a long blue dress, a brown veil over her hair, bracelets on both wrists, hands clasped in front. This drawing was made by Lambert in Cairo in April 1918.ART02794
-
Arab attendant, Magdhaba
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a full faced portrait of an Arab with a beard, moustache and dark curly hair, wearing a turban.ART02742
-
Auja crossing, Jordan
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with river. Low wooden bridge resting on pontoons. Two horses crossing bridge. White mule with head down right. Mounted horsemen on bank extreme right. Horses in distance centre, t...ART02691
-
Australian troop horse, full marching order
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Study of a bay troop horse wearing a 1902 pattern bridle, 1912 Universal Pattern saddle, and brown saddle blanket. Attached to the saddle is a pair of saddle wallets, greatcoat, rolled grey blanket, a...ART02689
-
Balcony of troopers' ward, 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
An unidentified Light Horse trooper is featured in a balcony ward of 14 Australian General Hospital. There is a bed by the window screened with portable screens and a nurse is standing at the foot of ...ART02815
-
Bedouin gun thief or runner, a very 'crook' character, Deiran
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a light horseman wearing a slouch hat and great coat holding a rifle with a bayonet and facing a captured Bedouin. The Bedouin is bearded and bare-footed, and wears a keffiyeh and brown and cr...ART02783
-
Brigadier-General Lachlan Wilson
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer Brigadier-General Lachlan Chisholm Wilson, CMG, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force; Commanding third Aus...ART02785
-
Captain Frederick Wright
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer Captain Frederick Charles Wright, Aide-de-Camp to Commander of the Anzac Mounted Division, Major General Chaytor, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 1st Australian Light ...ART02803
-
Captain Hugo Throssell
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer Captain Hugo Vivian Hope Throssel, VC, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment. He was awarded the Victoria Cross during operations on the ...ART02797
-
Colonel C Woodhill, 1st Battalion, British West Indies Regiment
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Portrait of an officer, Lieutenant Colonel C Woodhill (or Wood-Hill), Commanding, 1st BWI Regiment, 1st British West Indies Regiment, 'Chaytor's Force', El Arish, Jordan Valley, with a moustache and ...ART02745
-
Colonel John Arnott
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer Lieutenant-Colonel John Arnott, who commanded 9th Australian Light Horse at Serapeum. He was later transferred to command 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade Training D...ART02754
-
Colour note near Mena (1st expedition)
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Early in 1915 the Australian forces had camped on the outskirts of Cairo, on the sandy flats at Mena, near the pyramids. Lambert was interested in the local colour and light and in this work concentr...ART02848
-
Courtyard, 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a two-storey yellow rendered building with green shuttered windows and a balcony of Moorish design. Men in standard convalescent dress of blue trousers, white shirts and red ties (and the penc...ART02817
-
El Arish
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
El Arish was a large village on the coastal route across the Sinai desert about forty-five miles south west of Gaza. In 1916 El Arish had been under Turkish rule for two years,and was captured by the ...ART02677
-
Jack Dempsey
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert arrived in Egypt in January 1918. This was the final year of the war and many of the Australian troops were exhausted and resting in their camps. Lambert painted many of the men in camps and e...ART02716
-
Khurbet Sihan
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Khurbet Sihan is south-east of Gaza and a site of fighting during the first and second battles for Gaza in 1917. Major Charles Stodart, who had fought in the second of these battles of 19 April 1917, ...ART02707
-
Lieutenant General Sir Harry Chauvel
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Portrait in right profile with moustache of General Sir Harry Chauvel KCMG, KCB and Croix de Guerre. He is wearing a shoulder strap with crossed sword and baton badge, and Sam Browne belt. Chauvel beg...ART02734
-
-
Magdhaba
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert visited Magdhaba while en route to Cairo in 1918: "We proceeded on camels to Magdhaba, along the bed of the Wadi El Arish, a distance of some twenty odd miles, arriving at sundown. The ...ART09844
-
Major Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Portrait of the renowned Australian poet "Banjo" Paterson who was in charge of the Australian Light Horse Remount Unit in Moascar when Lambert arrived there in 1918. Lambert had illustrated Paterson's...ART02780
-
Major Charles Stodart
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer Major Charles C Stodart, MC, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment, Australian Expeditionary Force, badge of rank on shoulder strap, regim...ART02779
-
Major, The Earl of Winterton
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a three quarter portrait of an officer with a light moustache (turned towards the right of the image). Major (Edward Turnour), the Earl of Winterton served in the 9th Imperial Camel Corps of t...ART02735
-
Mount Meredith, Romani
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a Camel wearing a saddle and bridle in front of a sandy ridge. This work was painted on 18 March 1918 in the Romani area. Mount Meredith was named after Brigadier General J B Meredith, command...ART02694
-
Mrs Chisholm of Kantara
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
A head and shoulders portrait of Mrs (later Dame) Alice Chisholm (DBE) who ran soldiers' canteens in the Middle East during the First World War. On her own initiative and with her own funds she establ...ART02756
-
Rafa from One-Tree Hill
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a view from south east of Hill 255. Rafa is on the border between Egypt and Palestine on the Gaza strip and was captured by the ANZAC Mounted Corps on 9 January 1917. The two graves marked in ...ART02693
-
Romani, Mount Royston in background
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert was fascinated with the desert; its changing patterns and sharp contrasts. He advised other artists; 'Leave your pigments at home. Approach nature with a simple palette but an extravagant love...ART02704
-
Sakkara, Pyramids and Roman ruins
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts Arab men sitting in front of Roman and Ancient Egyptian ruins at Sakkara, with a step pyramid in background. As George Lambert adjusted to the climate and his duties as an official war artist ...ART02773
-
Sister Tidy, Australian Nursing Sister
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a three quarter length portrait of Sister Tidy, AANS, facing left. Wearing nurse's veil and uniform. Left hand supporting chin, index finger against cheek. Wrist watch on left wrist. Seated.ART02867
-
Study of dead horses, Moascar
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a study of three horses. Left horse with head towards artist, centre horse rear quarters, right horse disemboweled, near hind leg in air. Lambert was in the Australian Remounts Section at Moas...ART02730
-
Sunrise, Moascar
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape at sunrise, with tents in silhouette. There are two bi-planes in the sky. This was one of the first oils George Lambert made after commencing his work as an official war artist. "M...ART02864
-
The last tents at Moascar
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
In March 1919, George Lambert described the Moascar camp as: "Miles and miles of tents and desert, thousands of sweating, sun-bronzed men and beautiful horses"(Lambert 1938, p. 79). On 20 July 1919 he...ART02819
-
Trooper Walter White
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of a Trooper Walter R. White, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Australian Expeditionary Force, with a pipe in his mouth, wearing a slouch hat with...ART02782
-
Turkish buildings by the wadi, at Magdhaba
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert painted this watercolour in mid March 1918 when he visited Magdhaba. Using the available shade at midday, George Lambert painted this from the hospital window opposite the Turkish buildings. T...ART02792
-
Turkish prisoner, boot repairing department, Gezira
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a half-length study of two Turkish prisoners with moustaches and wearing aprons who stand while they repair boots (turned towards the right of the image). The nearer prisoner has an embroidere...ART02762
-
Wady bed at Magdhaba
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a view of Wadi el Arish with sand hills and mountains at Magdhaba. Lambert visited this area in March 1918 during his first tour of Palestine. Magdhaba was the scene of a battle on 23 December...ART02777
-
Well-bred white donkey
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a profile of a white donkey facing to the left of the image, wearing a halter, and held by an Arab youth (wallad) wearing a long yellow jellaba and a cap. The youth and donkey cast a dark sha...ART02686