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Accession Number | ART02822 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | framed: 25 x 40 cm; unframed: 15 x 30.5 cm |
Object type | Painting |
Physical description | oil on wood panel |
Location | Main Bld: First World War Gallery: Sinai Palestine 1917 |
Maker |
Lambert, George |
Place made | Ottoman Empire: Palestine, North Palestine, Lake Tiberias, Tiberias |
Date made | 1919 |
Conflict |
Period 1910-1919 First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Tiberias
Description
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 the west coast of the sea of Gallilee, was captured on 25 September 1918 by Major Macpherson of the 8th Light Horse Regiment.