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Abbassia, Cairo
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Maker: Lambert, George
A landscape of Abbassia near Cairo. In 1916, Abbassia was the site of a school to train Australians how to ride and handle camels. Lambert is known to have visited there in April 1918.ART11391.040
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A crash in the desert
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a desert landscape, with a small aeroplane on the ground and figure to the right of the plane. Aircraft such as this, possibly a BE12 or RE8, were used at the beginning of the war for reconnai...ART02684
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A favourite charger with groom, Anzac Mounted Division
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts Private George Shelton Lambert, a groom with 11th Light Horse Regiment, holding a troop horse. Despite the artist's title, 'A favourite charger' [i.e. officer's horse], this horse wears the di...ART02837
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Akir raid
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Maker: Lambert, George
Twentieth page of the sketchbook titled 'Pocket Book No 2 containing 18 notes, material & pictures' used by George Lambert. A study of two seated figures appears on the verso of the page.ART11394.020
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Aleppo citadel
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a drawing of a Crusaders' fortress with ruins of two massive gate houses linked by stairway supported by arches. Aleppo in northern Syria is a very ancient settlement, already established by ...ART02869
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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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[Ambulance wagon]
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Maker: Lambert, George
The ambulance wagon was known as a sand cart as used during the First World War.ART11393.021
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A merry Christmas on board the SS "Bloody Lydia"
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a sketch of a Light Horseman Lieutenant Crossby-Brown wearing a life jacket and slouch hat on board the channel troop ship SS "Bloody Lidia" at night during rough weather in the English Channe...ART02720
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A native belle
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of the head and shoulders of a Palestinian woman with curly dark hair wearing a dark close-fitting head-dress and an open-necked dress (turned towards the left of the image).ART02685
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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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Anzac Cove
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Maker: Lambert, George
Towards the end of his stay on Gallipoli with the Australian Historical Mission, Lambert made a painting of ANZAC Cove with the hills of Suvla in the distance. Lambert wrote on 5 March 1919: "In the a...ART02839
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Anzac, from Gaba Tepe
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a view over Anzac Cove, looking from the hillside of Gaba Tepe across the water towards the hills beyond. George Lambert wrote on 27 February, 1919: 'To-day the Mission visited Gaba Tepe, fro...ART02825
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Anzac, the landing 1915
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Maker: Lambert, George
Australian troops ascending ridge to Plugge's Plateau, The Sphinx, Walker's Ridge and Baby 700 on skyline, steep, rocky hillside at Gallipoli, the terrain prohibitive. Many of the soldiers are dead, o...ART02873
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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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Arab horse
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Maker: Lambert, George
Recto: landscape study of an arab horse and rider.ART11395.012
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Arab huts, Jericho
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with Arabs, huts and a goat in the foreground, palm and other trees in the middle ground and steep hills behind a plain in the distance.ART02709
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Arab Mare, Es Salt (The famous mare of Es Salt)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a Bedouin with a turban and blue and mauve clothes sits on a chestnut Arabian horse with four white feet and a decorated bridle and horse rug. A well-known and friendly sheikh sat for the arti...ART02682
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Arabs by the sea
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with the sea in the background. A group of Arab men, women and children, stand at the top of a cliff, with their goats, horse, donkeys and dog. Figure lying lower right, blacks goa...ART11384
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Arthur Streeton
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Maker: Lambert, George
During the First World War Arthur Streeton joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and worked as an orderly at the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth. He was appointed an official war artist in May 1...ART19841
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[A single study of a horse]
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Maker: Lambert, George
This study of a horse rearing shows the front left leg in skeleton profile.ART11389.021
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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
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a drawing of an unidentified Light Horseman seated, legs apart, left hand on left knee, right forearm resting on right knee. Wearing a slouch hat with emu plume, Australian Commonwealth forces...ART02795
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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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Ayunkara (Richon le Zion)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a bare, undulating landscape with the remains of animals in the foreground. There are two horses on top of the hill on the right of the image. In February 1918, Lambert visited the ANZAC Mount...ART02697
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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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Barada Gorge from road level
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Maker: Lambert, George
The main route from Damascus west to Beirut runs beside the Barada river through a steep gorge. On 30 September 1918 Australian troops had trapped and killed Turkish troops in Barada Gorge who were f...ART02818
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Barada Gorge, looking down the road to Damascus
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Maker: Lambert, George
In June 1919 Lambert travelled to Barada Gorge north west of Damascus and where on 30 September 1918 a column of Turkish troops and transports, endeavouring to flee from Damascus, were intercepted by...ART02836
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Barada Gorge, looking from Damascus
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Maker: Lambert, George
West of the Barada Gorge with the road and railway on the route through the eastern mountains to Syria. In 1926, some years after painting this sketch, George Lambert wrote to Charles Bean: "The origi...ART02845
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Barada Gorge, 30 September 1918
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Maker: Lambert, George
A section of the Barada Gorge, showing the road and railway route through the eastern mountains where fleeing Turkish troops and German machine-gunners were confronted by the 5th Australian Light Hors...ART09755
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Battle of Romani, 4 August 1916
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Maker: Lambert, George
A desert landscape with light horsemen dismounting and preparing for battle. Two soldiers place a stretcher into an ambulance wagon (in the centre right of the image). A dead white horse lies in the f...ART09556
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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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[Beersheba landscape, with artist's colour notes]
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Maker: Lambert, George
The landscape sketch includes flowers in the lower right and hills in the distance, and contains artist's colour notation. This pencil sketch of a landscape, most probably the landscape on which Lam...ART11389.030
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Behind the Turkish lines, Gallipoli
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with a flat valley with an olive grove before low treeless hills, under a blue sky with low clouds. It is most likely that this small oil was painted in Legge Valley where the Aust...ART02829
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Beirut
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Maker: Lambert, George
This painting captures the mountainous landscape of Beirut, including a boat at anchor in the harbour and cumulous white clouds and mountains in the distance. This work was most probably made during...ART96767
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Bespectacled gentleman
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an unidentified civilian, wearing pince-nez, fly-away collar and necktie, waistcoat and jacket.ART11449
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Big gun emplacement, Fort of Chanak
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Maker: Lambert, George
This work was painted during George Lambert's visit to Gallipoli in 1919 with the Australian Historical Mission. They spent a week at Chanak (7-14 Feb), a small town on the Asiatic side of the Dardane...ART02835
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[Blank page]; verso [Gum tree]
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Maker: Lambert, George
This drawing of a gum tree including some shading on the left of the trunk and on some branches. Some shading is present on the leaves in the upper centre and right hand side.ART11390.004
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[Blank page]; verso [Study of horse and rider]
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Maker: Lambert, George
This incomplete sketch of two horses the one on the left has its head held high and the horse on the right with a seated rider, has it's head down feeding or nuzzling the ground.ART11390.005
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Book B [sketchbook containing 18 pages of drawings of landscapes near Tiberias and figure studies]
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Maker: Lambert, George
A sketchbook used by George Lambert during his commission containing 23 drawings of landscapes near Tiberias, studies of figures, horses and flowers, as well as artist's notes. Title inscribed by Lamb...ART11398
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Boom, racer and troop horse
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a bay horse "Boom", Australian Light Horse unit facing right, his tail slightly raised and wearing a headstall.ART02805
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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 Charles Cox
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Maker: Lambert, George
A portrait of an officer Brigadier General Charles Frederick Cox, CB, CMG, DSO, VD, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade, 6th Light Horse Regimen, also previously in (Boer...ART02801
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Brigadier-General Granville Ryrie
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Maker: Lambert, George
A portrait of an officer Major-General, the Hon. Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, CMG, CB, KCMG, VD. He served in South Africa, and in Gallipoli and Palestine and was Senior Officer in Charge of the AIF...ART02765
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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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Brigadier General William Grant
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Maker: Lambert, George
Profile portrait of Brigadier General William Grant, C.M.G., D.S.O. He served at Gallipoli and then in Sinai in command of the 11th Light Horse Regiment. In August 1917 he took command of the 4th Brig...ART02770
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Broken down gharry horse, Cairo
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a bay stallion in a bridle, that would have been used to pull a cart, together with a seated Egyptian man wearing a red tarboosh (fez). He is most likely the gharry (cart) driver.ART02703
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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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Burnt gully, Gallipoli
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a hilly landscape with the blackened stumps of burnt trees. This scene, painted at Gallipoli between 18 and 21 February 1919 shows the battlefield with hills, gullies and ridges, stumps of bu...ART02824