| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | ART11394 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall - Closed: 17.9 cm x 12.8 cm x 1.4 cm |
| Object type | Sketchbook |
| Physical description | pencil and brown ink in hard grey-green cover with black linen binding |
| Maker |
Lambert, George Payne, Harry |
| Date made | 1918 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Pocket book no 2 containing 18 notes, material & pictures [sketchbook containing 24 pages of drawings of figures, horses and camels]
Description
A sketchbook of 48 leaves, containing 23 pages of drawings of figures, horses and camels as well as scenes at Ismailia, Magdhaba, Moascar and Ramleh. The sketchbook is hardbound in a grey-green cover with black linen binding and was utilised by George Lambert during his first trip to Palestine in 1918. The inside front cover features a sketch of two skulls.
- recto: not titled [australian war memorial accession number]; verso: not titled [horse and figure studies]
- recto: Odd notes ferry post; verso: khuwelfeh - camel corps shows 3rd battalion
- not titled [figure and horse study]
- recto: My first groom at Moascar; verso: not titled [artists notes]
- not titled [lower torso study]
- recto: Also ran; verso: Magdhaba shorthand notes
- recto: not titled [map of australia with figure study and horse]; verso: not titled [horse with artists notes]
- recto: french club, night time; verso: not titled [camel study]
- recto: ferry post studies of camels; verso: not titled [camel head studies]
- recto: not titled [study of a camel standing]; verso: not titled [study of a camel seated]
- recto: saddling up; verso: not titled [study of a head wearing a hat]
- recto: not titled [study of Khuwelfeh landscape and a man loading a camel]; verso: walking into it
- recto: Tel-el-saba just outside beersheba; verso: midday halt, ramleh
- recto: akir raid; verso: the magnoon mare
- recto: my nephew's little lot; verso: short hand notes
- recto: Where we caught the bedouin thief; verso: The raid akir
- recto: lieutenant colonel stuart's horse; verso: corporal g. nield 12th A.L.H.
- recto: two dinkums; verso: akir raid
- not titled [Head studies with artist's notes]
- Akir raid
- recto: not titled [head and figure sketches]; verso: a crash in the desert
- recto: interior shorthand note for akir raid; verso: shoeing
- recto: shoeing; verso: not titled [study of a billy can and a paint tube]