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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Contours, south of France
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with farm buildings and trees foreground, steep cliffs in the background. George Lambert travelled by train through France and Italy en route to Palestine in 1918. He made a visual...ART02728
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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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Dardanelles from Chanak, effects of blizzard on Gallipoli
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Maker: Lambert, George
This view from Chanak looks towards the Gallipoli Peninsula with the Kilid Bahr Plateau covered in snow, in the background. There are remains of a jetty in the foreground. In 1919 George Lambert accom...ART02833
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[Engine Standing with steam up at stop - main building, Train station, Semakh]
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Maker: Lambert, George
A locomotive Engine stands with steam coming out of the entrance to the Semakh Railway Station. The main building with two water tower adjacent lies to the left of the railway line. Lambert described...ART11393.022
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Ford over the Jordan at Jisr Benat Yakub
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a scene of a ford over the Jordan River at Jisr Benat Yakub. A close up view of an Arab seated with goats and a donkey beneath a dark green sprawling tree, beside the Jordan river. To the left...ART02841
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Gallipoli, from the Chanak side
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Maker: Lambert, George
In 1919 George Lambert accompanied the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli. He painted this from Chanak looking towards Gallipoli. He wrote: "I have managed to make four sketches, quite passabl...ART02858
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Gallipoli, looking towards Anafarta and Suvla
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape - The Razor Edge, between Plugge's Plateau and Russell's Top, looking towards Annafarta and Suvla.On the day that Lambert probably made this work he noted: "Ten thirty saw Spruce &...ART02862
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Gallipoli wild flowers
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a still life of flowers and foliage in a biscuit tin. Lambert picked these flowers from the site of 'Beachy Bill', and painted them when the Australian Historical Mission was held up by rain. ...ART02838
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General Chaytor's tent, Kantara camp
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Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert completed this painting between 9-10 July 1919 after his visit to Gallipoli with the Australian Historical Mission. The image relates to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Australian and Ne...ART02831
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Head of a Turk, Chanak
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Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert made this portrait study of a Turkish veteran at Chanak in February 1919, he noted on the study that the soldier had fought in front of Australian Troops in 1915.ART02863
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Inside the fort, Chanak
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Maker: Lambert, George
In 1919 Lambert accompanied the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli. This painting shows buildings inside a fort at Chanak, seen through a large gap in the walls. The fort 'Kale Sultanieh' is a...ART02832
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Italy, sketched from train window
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape of hills, buildings foreground left and distant hills top right. George Lambert travelled by train through France en route to Palestine in 1918. He wrote " Italy does not compare,...ART02726
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Jerusalem from the top of the Dung Gate; verso: First geometric design for 'The Nek'
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Maker: Lambert, George
A panoramic townscape with dark green vegetation in the foreground. Cypress trees and mosques are prominent on the skyline. The top of the city wall appears on the bottom right. The Dung Gate was a ma...ART02855
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Jisr Benat Yakub: bridge repaired by Australian Unit
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a stone bridge over a brown river under a blue sky with clouds. The bridge has been repaired with a wooden construction. An Arab on a mule cross the bridge and a naked man squats on the stones...ART02854
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Kantara, flags announcing peace
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with coral blue lake, background with ship sketched in pencil. Bridge middle right, buildings, low palms and tents behind canal. High flagpole right with many different flags. Kant...ART02861
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Lieutenant R Croucher R.F.C.
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts the image of Lieutenant Richard Croucher wearing a balaclava seated next to a train window, with the night landscape seen through the window. This drawing belongs to the group of drawings that...ART02724
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Light Horse Officer in 14th Australian General Hospital Abbassia
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of a patient reclining on a pillow showing his left side profile. His pillow and bedclothes are lightly sketched. While ill in Abassia in 1919, Lambert continued to use his time pro...ART02871
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Lone Pine, looking towards the Nek, Walker's Ridge
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape, the site of the 1915 charge at the Nek, looking north towards The Nek, with the slopes on the right, low trees and shrubs in the foreground and a low ridge behind. George Lambert ...ART02826
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Major C Jarman
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer Major Cecil Trevelyan Jarman, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Australian Imperial Forces Headquarters, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 7th Australian Light Horse Re...ART50268
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Major Harry Worthington
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer Major Harry Worthington, MID, Commanding 8th Australian Mobile Veterinary Section (AMVS), also Deputy Assistant Director Veterinary Services, Australian Division.ART02870
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Major Zeki Bey
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of Major Zeki Bey, Commander of a Turkish Regiment, who was a Turkish officer lent by the Ottoman General Staff to the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli in 1919, to provide...ART02868
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Moascar after the evacuation
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Maker: Lambert, George
A desert landscape with a low horizon, painted in the late afternoon beneath a hazy and probably smokey sky, with an incinerator in the right foreground and building poles in the middle ground. On 1 ...ART02843
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Portrait of C.E.W. Bean, left profile
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of First World War official war correspondent, Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, seen in left profile.ART90829
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recto: Achi Baba, from Tommy's Trench, Helles; verso: The top of the Taurus Mountains
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Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert wrote on 8 March 1919: "The old Bean [Charles Bean] had a great day among the old trenches about the plain before Krithia. Achi Baba makes a fine contour in the background and the plain is cov...ART02849
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Rest Camp Taranto
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Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert spent three days at the southern Italian town of Taranto on his way with the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli in 1919. The rest camp was approximately 4 miles outside of the town.ART11393.026
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River Clyde at Cape Helles
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Maker: Lambert, George
Part of the plan for the landing at Gallipoli was that a collier, 'River Clyde', should be run aground at V Beach on the southern tip of the peninsular with 2000 men of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, wh...ART02850
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Sand cart and team, Kantara
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a two-wheeled ambulance cart with a red cross canvas cover , flying a red cross flag. The cart is drawn by four bay draught horses, two riders (facing the right of the image and away from the ...ART02812
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Semakh, looking from Yarmuk
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a valley with a lake, with hills in the distance, viewed from above. A light horseman sits on a rise overlooking the valley, an Arab rides a donkey down the slope and a grey horse stands besi...ART02840
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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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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
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Tiberias
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape of fields with stone walls in front of a town with a mosque and white flat-topped buildings. Lake Tiberias (the Sea of Gallilee) and hills are seen in the background. Tiberias, on ...ART02822
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West Mudros rest camp, Lemnos
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Maker: Lambert, George
This work was painted during Lambert's visit to Gallipoli in 1919 with the Australian Historical Mission, when the sea journey from Taranto was broken at Lemnos. The Mission travelled from Malta to t...ART02823