recto: By The Sweet Water Canal; verso: [landscape, soldier and camels]

recto: Depicts a drawing of gardens showing trees including two high palm trees. Two light planes over gardens to right of palms. Lambert described Ismailia in a talk to the Chelsea Arts Club, ' A more delightful spot for an artist who likes typical Egyptian colour and people, it would be hard to find for it gives much amelioration to the dry dustiness and shut in feeling of Cairo and the desert towns, for at Ismailia there is sailing on the Salt Lake an a public garden rich in rare green trees ablaze with tropical flowers. The sweet water canals so called chiefly, I suggest, because it is not salt, runs alongside the mainstreet on road, and carries picturesque feluccas and other craft typical of the East, their cargoes frequently made up of fruits or vegetables, colourful and refreshing, cropped from the irrigated gardens which border the sweet water canal from Ismailia to Cairo and make those striking patches of livid green against the dry light desert and beyond'. (Lambert 1938, p.79);
verso: small sketch of a soldier and camels in a landscape with mountains in the background.