Mounted troops move through a defile in Palestine

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Palestine
Accession Number ART11385
Collection type Art
Measurement framed: 38.2 x 55 cm; unframed: 29.2 x 46.1 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil, pencil on wood panel
Maker Lambert, George
Place made Egypt, Ottoman Empire: Palestine
Date made 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Traffic passes down a road in a narrow valley between hills with truck convoy, camel caravan led by an Arab, mounted light horsemen, a group of Turkish prisoners of war, Arab civilians, lorries, and a Red Cross truck. There are Arabs and donkeys on the hill in the foreground, and two war graves on the hillside. The victims of the May raids in the area east of the Jordan were the local inhabitants who had enthusiastically welcomed the allied troops and who were not able to escape with them. This work may depict the fugitives escaping with their beasts of burden.