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Southern France
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Maker: Lambert, George
An early morning sketch of buildings including a church on the left. Outcrops of rock centre right, bare trees foreground, and birds in the sky, possibly ducks, centre. George Lambert travelled by tra...ART02725
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1st Brigade embarking, Kantara
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a Tramp Steamer, possibly the 'Madras', moared at a wharf on the Suez Canal. Troops of the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade can be seen on the bank and the wharf awaiting repatriation, and t...ART02820
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Storm effect, Malta
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Maker: Lambert, George
View of Valletta, Malta with storm clouds over the city. Painted by George Lambert in late January 1919, when the Australian Historical Mission rested three days in Malta. This work was described in t...ART02847
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Study for dead trooper and detail of Turkish trench, Gallipoli (Pro patria)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a study of Turkish trench on Johnston's Jolly, with posed 'corpse' in front. The 'corpse' is 1269 Trooper William Henry Spruce, 7 Light Horse Regiment, wearing tunic, slouch hat, trousers and ...ART02857
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Study of Arbutus shrub, Gallipoli
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Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert was fascinated by the details of the landscape as much as the battlefield sites. On his arrival at Gallipoli in January 1919 he noted: "The chief local colour is made up of local scrub about 2...ART02860
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Sunrise Semakh, looking from the Sea of Galilee
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with buildings and trees, and blue hills in the background under a pale sky.ART02842
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Sunrise Semakh, looking towards Yarmuk Gorge
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Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert described Semakh as: "... a railway-station of picturesque conglomeration of not more than usually dirty Arab huts, and a few tents and horses of the occupation people on the shore, sou...ART02834
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Sunrise, south of France en route to Marseille
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a sketch of a landscape with dark hills in the background, trees in the foreground. Lambert travelled by train through France on his first trip in 1918 to the Middle East .ART02718
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Sunset, Lemnos
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a seascape with water and ships, and with buildings and hills on the distant shore, beneath a sunset. This work was painted during George Lambert's visit to Gallipoli in 1919 with the Australi...ART02853
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The Anzacs (maquette for Desert Mounted Corps Memorial)
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Maker: Lambert, George Gregory, E J
Australian light horsemen depicted during the Sinai-Palestine campaign as a proposal for symbolic composition for a Desert Mounted Corps Memorial. The plasticene model of 1919 was cast into plaster by...ART12505
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The half limber
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts two light horsemen, with their sleeves rolled up, sitting in a two wheeled cart which is drawn by two black horses (facing to the right of the image). The horses are harnessed, and a white fri...ART02814
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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 Nek, Walker's Ridge, site of the charge of the light horse; verso; Rest Gully, pack mule and the draught horse
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Maker: Lambert, George
View of the Nek from the lower slopes with bones littering no-man's-land, site of the charge at the Nek, an August 1915 offensive. Lambert wrote on 17 February 1919: "I was conducted by the 'Mission'...ART02856
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The Nile from Gezira
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape seen across the Nile from the island of Gezireh, with two small sailing boats (Felucca) on dark blue water. Palm trees and two animals stand on the bank, and a town covers the hill...ART02821
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The Padre
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a three quarter portrait of a clergyman, wearing a clerical collar and Christian chaplain's badge on coat collar. It is thought that this Padre travelled with Lambert on his journey from Londo...ART02717
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The road to Aleppo
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts figures including an Arab on horseback, progressing along a road leading to buildings. There are hills in the background. Aleppo was the most northern city occupied by the Allied forces and wa...ART02830
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The Sea of Galilee, looking towards Semakh from Tiberias Road
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Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert wrote to his wife in June 1919: '‘It is really very beautiful here the Sea or lake laps very pleasantly against the warm grey face of the edge about 10 to 20 feet high & bathing morning...ART02828
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The Sphinx from Plugge's Plateau
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Maker: Lambert, George
The high ridge of the Sphinx, a sharp spur, dominates the scene. Hampered by poor weather, George Lambert painted this work in three sessions. On 18-21 February 1919 he wrote: "Two fair days out of fo...ART02846
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The Sphinx, from Suvla side, grey day
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Maker: Lambert, George
A view of The Sphinx, as seen from the northern side. George Lambert accompanied the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli in 1919. He wrote on 16 February 1919: "I did a sketch of the 'Sphinx' f...ART02851
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The trooper and the maid
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a lighthorseman in full uniform and hat faces a maid wearing a dark dress and white apron, who offers him a drink on a tray.ART92815