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[Ambulance wagon]
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Maker: Lambert, George
This drawing of an ambulance of sand wagon is from behind, showing the beds stacked inside the vehicle.ART11393.036
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An Egyptian girl, Cairo
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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
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Arab attendant, Magdhaba
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a full faced portrait of an Arab with a beard, moustache and dark curly hair, wearing a turban.ART02742
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A Turkish prisoner (Bash Shawish, Ghezireh)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of a Turkish prisoner wearing a hat with tassel, long moustache and Turkish shirt. Turkish prisoners in Egypt, lived under perhaps the best conditions of any prisoners during the Fi...ART02800
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Auja crossing, Jordan
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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
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[Australian Light Horseman kneeling]
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Maker: Lambert, George
A soldier kneels on the ground in full Australian Light Horse uniform. His right leg is bent upward while the left leg is bent towards the ground. The solider rests his right arm on his knee and his r...ART11393.030
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Australian troop horse, full marching order
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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
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Balcony of troopers' ward, 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia
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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
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Bedouin gun thief or runner, a very 'crook' character, Deiran
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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
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Breakwater, Port Said
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts figures standing on a breakwater at Port Said which juts out from the shore into the sea, at the entrance to the Suez Canal, statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps on end of breakwater. Boats are besi...ART02827
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Brigadier-General Lachlan Wilson
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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
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Brown book [eight drawings on laid paper in sketchbook of 69 bound leaves, 2 loose sheets mounted on bound leaves, and an additional 34 loose sheets]
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Maker: Lambert, George
A sketchbook of George Lambert's containing 10 pages of drawings of figures, horses, camp scenes, and landscapes around Romani and Latron, and an additional 34 loose sheets of various studies for the ...ART11393
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Camel, Abbassia, full marching order
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Maker: Lambert, George
A white camel, wearing a bridle and saddle kneels facing the left of the image. It carries various articles of equipment on its back including a white fodder bag and a blue blanket. A sandhill in the...ART02744
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Camp scene
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a camp sketch with tents and mess equipment. Soldiers participate in a variety of activities. Lambert was in the Middle East from 13 January 918 to June 1918 and with C.E.W. Bean on Historical...ART19326
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Captain Frederick Wright
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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
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Captain Hugo Throssell
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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
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Colonel C Woodhill, 1st Battalion, British West Indies Regiment
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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
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Colonel John Arnott
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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
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Colour note near Mena (1st expedition)
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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
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Courtyard, 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia
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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
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Coverless sketchbook containing 30 sketches of horses, landscape and Anzac Light Horse Memorial 1919
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Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert, an official war artist in Middle East 13 Jan 1918 to June 1918 travelled with Bean on a historical mission to Gallipoli in February to March 1919, and then revisited Palestine. On his ...ART11389
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El Arish
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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
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Ferry Post, Ismailia
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape showing a bay with a dhow and feluccas, and various buildings and tents on the hills on the other side of the bay. There is a camel in the left foreground. Ferry Post was the Camel...ART02715
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Ghezireh, kit stores
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts buildings surrounded by trees and flowering shrubs, with a palm tree (on the left of the image). Lambert stayed at the Ghezireh kit-stores while waiting to embark for England in 1918.ART02809
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[Hill fortification]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Two men sit upon a cannon which is positioned on the top of a fortification. The absence of trees and the surrounding debris of war indicate a conflict has left the land stripped and barren.ART11393.035
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[Horse and rider on downhill]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Studies of soldiers on horseback making their way downhill on a narrow path. A horse lies on its side at the far right of the composition. There is a sketchy outline of hills in the distance.ART11393.029
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[Horses head grazing]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Study of a horses head and forequarters grazing for food on the ground. The horse is saddled and the reins are loose around the horses head.ART11393.032
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Jack Dempsey
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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
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[Jordan Valley Landscape]
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Maker: Lambert, George
This sketch of a Jordan Valley landscape contains a view of the artists campsite in the lower left and then builds to encompass the distant mountainous landscape in the upper right of the composition.ART11393.001
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Khurbet Sihan
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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
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Lieutenant Colonel Frank Newton
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Graham Newton, CBE, DSO, Assistant Adjutant General, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment, with a moustache, lap...ART02796
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Lieutenant General Sir Harry Chauvel
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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
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Loading wounded into sand cart, Magdhaba
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Maker: Lambert, George
Three men dressed in Australian Infantry uniform stand at the entrance to the horse drawn ambulance wagon, while another man lies on the stretcher contained with in the wagon.ART11393.025
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Magdhaba
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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
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Major Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson
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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
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Major Charles Stodart
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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
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Major, The Earl of Winterton
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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
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Major Thomas Willsallen
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer Major Thomas Willsallen, DSO, Commanding B Squadron, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Australian Expeditionary Force, with moustach...ART02784
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Mount Meredith, Romani
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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
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Mrs Chisholm of Kantara
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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
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Native quarters, Ismailia
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a town with flat roofed buildings, with a white road in the foreground, a palm tree to the right. Ismailia, a town established by the Suez Canal company in 1863, it is situated on the Suez Can...ART02683
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not titled [artist notes]; verso: study of light Beersheba Charge
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Maker: Lambert, George
Recto: artist notes written during Lambert's time in Palestine with the 2nd Light Horse. It lists the names of places including Romani, Magdhaba Raafa and Beersheba as well as gives a description of ...ART11388.006
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not titled [figure study]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Study of a man on a loose leaf page.ART11388.002
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not titled [sketches of legs]
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Maker: Lambert, George
The drawing depicts six small pencil sketches of legs climbing from a low vantage point.ART11392.001
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not titled [sketches of sailing boats]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts several small studies and a larger single study of a sailing boat. A man wearing a turban and loose cloak stands adjacent the mast, which is located towards the front of the boat.ART11392.002
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not titled [sketch of a soldier seated]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts an Australian soldier with his right leg outstretched and his left leg bent at 90 degrees.ART11392.005
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not titled [sketch of a soldier seated]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts an Australian soldier with his right leg outstretched and his left leg bent at 90 degrees. His hands are clasped.ART11392.006
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not titled [sketch of a soldier seated smoking a pipe]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a soldier seated with his hands crossed in his lap smoking a pipe. His rifle lays at his right side.ART11392.004
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not titled [study of a horse]
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Maker: Lambert, George Lambert, George
Studies of a horse's body, rear and head with shading.ART11388.003
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not titled [study of soldier holding a rifle]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Study of a soldier holding a rifle. In the foreground is a detailed closeup of a hand gripping a rifle.ART11388.005
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Not titled [Turkish soldier]; verso: Not titled [Turkish soldiers seated]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Three quarter portrait of the right profile of a Turkish soldier in uniform. Verso: A group of three Turkish soldiers are seated playing cards. There is a profile of an Australian Light Horse face and...ART11393.002
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Rafa from One-Tree Hill
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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
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Ramleh
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with a village on the coastal plains, captured from the Turks and later the site of the General Headquarters of the Expeditionary Force.ART02702
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recto: not titled [figure studies]; verso: not titled [unfinished landscapes]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Recto: figure studies. Verso: two unfinished landscapesART11388.001
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recto: not titled [sketch of a soldier crouched]; verso: not titled [sketch of a soldier seated ]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Third page of the sketchbook titled 'The Buff Book, Liuet. G.W. Lambert, Official Artist A.I.F. Egypt' used by George Lambert during his trip to Egypt. Depicts a sketch of a soldier in uniform crouchi...ART11392.003
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recto: not titled [sketch of a soldier holding a gun]; verso: not titled [sketch of a landscape]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Eighth page of the sketchbook titled 'The Buff Book, Liuet. G.W. Lambert, Official Artist A.I.F. Egypt' used by George Lambert during his trip to Egypt. Depicts an Australian soldier holding a gun, wh...ART11392.008
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Romani, Mount Royston in background
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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
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rough pencil [illeg.]; verso: not titled [man on camel & artist notes]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Recto: study of a soldier riding a horse with various smaller sketches that have been crossed out. Verso: faint study of man mounted on a camel surrounded by animals and figures.ART11388.007
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Sakkara, Pyramids and Roman ruins
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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
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[Seated Turkish soldier wearing headscarf, and reclining Australian soldier, with hat, pipe and pistol]
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Maker: Lambert, George
A composite study of a seated (or lying) Turkish soldier, a reclining Australian soldier with hat and a study of a hand holding a pistol.ART11391.006
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Sister Tidy, Australian Nursing Sister
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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
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[Soldier feeding a deer]
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Maker: Lambert, George
The outline of a soldier wearing jodpurs and the uniform of the Australian Light Horse, feeds a deer with his left hand.ART11393.034
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Soudanese wallad (boy), Army Veterinary Corps Depot, Egypt
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a young barefooted Sudanese wallad (boy) wearing a high head-dress and djella'ba, sits on a donkey at the Army Veterinary Corps Depot in Egypt. The mule wears a halter with a long rope attache...ART02721
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[Studies of horses flank]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Three sketches profiling the flank of the horse with hind legs and tail.ART11393.031
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Study of dead horses, Moascar
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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
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[Study of horse with pack, saddle and reins]
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Maker: Lambert, George
A sketch of a horse from behind. The horse is alert looking straight forward and carries a saddle laden with supplies and the reins are loose around it's neck.ART11393.033
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Sunrise, Moascar
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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
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The buff book [sketchbook containing eleven drawings of boats, soldiers and landscapes]
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Maker: Lambert, George
A sketchbook used by George Lambert during his commission containing eleven drawings of boats, landscapes, mules and figures studies. Title inscribed by Lambert on the front cover as 'The Buff Book, L...ART11392
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The Greybook
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Maker: Lambert, George
A sketchbook used by George Lambert during his commission containing five pages of drawings, including inside covers, of figures, horses, heads, landscapes and horse and rider studies for 'The charge ...ART11388
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The last tents at Moascar
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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
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The wealthy sheik of Romani
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Maker: Lambert, George
A portrait of a man wearing a cloth on his head and loose draping clothing holds some paper in his right hand while examining its contents with his left hand.ART11393.027
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[Three Turkish men]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Three Turkish men stand in traditional long flowing robes and turban hats, a sketch Lambert made in Gezira.ART11393.020
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Trooper Walter White
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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
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Turkish buildings by the wadi, at Magdhaba
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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
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Turkish prisoner, boot repairing department, Gezira
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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
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Turkish Prisoners at work, Tent Repair Depot
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Maker: Lambert, George
In this scene, three Turkish prisoners sit on the ground with their legs crossed. All have moustaches and are wearing Fezzes, with the centre figure smoking a cigar. Turkish prisoners in Egypt lived u...ART02746
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Turkish prisoners Tailoring Department, Ghezireh
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a sketch of six Turkish prisoners, wearing fezzes, two seated and sewing, three in the background, and one standing. A Red Cross report in 1917 stated that Turkish Prisoners were not forced to...ART02791
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[Turkish soldier in riding uniform]; [Turkish soldier]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Recto: pencil sketch of a Turkish soldier wearing riding uniform made at Gezira, with colour notations by Lambert; Verso: pencil sketch of Turkish soldier with detail on the face made at Gezira with c...ART11393.007
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[Turkish soldier, wearing gardening gloves, holding stick in a position of hoeing]
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Maker: Lambert, George
A turkish soldier bends from the waist as he uses a hoe on the ground. This study was made while Lambert was in Gezira.ART11393.017
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verso: not titled [unfinished landscape study]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Unfinished study of figures in landscape, one lying on a strecher. Artist has scribbled out the drawing.ART11388.004
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Wady bed at Magdhaba
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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
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Well-bred white donkey
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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