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  1. Aleppo citadel

    Art

    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

  2. Contours, south of France

    Art

    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

  3. Italy, sketched from train window

    Art

    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

  4. Jerusalem from the top of the Dung Gate; verso: First geometric design for 'The Nek'

    Art

    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

  5. Jisr Benat Yakub: bridge repaired by Australian Unit

    Art

    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

  6. Rest Camp Taranto

    Art

    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

  7. Road to Mena, showing the Pyramids

    Art

    Maker: Lambert, George

    Depicts a landscape scene looking towards the Great Pyramids along a road to Mena, showing a road in the foreground, beside a canal reflecting light, leads past flat roofed buildings towards four rece...

    ART02816

  8. Semakh, looking from Yarmuk

    Art

    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

  9. Southern France

    Art

    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

  10. 1st Brigade embarking, Kantara

    Art

    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

  11. Storm effect, Malta

    Art

    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

  12. Sunrise Semakh, looking from the Sea of Galilee

    Art

    Maker: Lambert, George

    Depicts a landscape with buildings and trees, and blue hills in the background under a pale sky.

    ART02842

  13. Sunrise Semakh, looking towards Yarmuk Gorge

    Art

    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

  14. Sunset, Lemnos

    Art

    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

  15. The Nile from Gezira

    Art

    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

  16. The road to Aleppo

    Art

    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

  17. The Sea of Galilee, looking towards Semakh from Tiberias Road

    Art

    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

  18. Tiberias

    Art

    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

  19. West Mudros rest camp, Lemnos

    Art

    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

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