| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | ART09447 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall - Closed: 9.6 cm x 13.4 cm x 1.2 cm; Overall - Open: 9.6 x 27.1 cm |
| Object type | Sketchbook |
| Physical description | beige canvas cloth covered sketchbook, white cartridge paper pages, elastic binder |
| Maker |
Elliott, Dudley Marwood |
| Place made | Egypt |
| Date made | 1914 -1915 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Sketchbook containing 22 pencil sketches of Egypt and Turkey
Description
A small cloth covered sketchbook containing 22 pencil sketches of buildings, sites and landscapes done in Egypt and Turkey during the First World War by Lt. Dudley Marwood Elliott. He served with the 11th Battalion, Australian Infantry and died of wounds on 18 September 1918 near Roisel, France. D M Elliott was born in Brighton, Victoria in 1896, enlisted in August 1914, aged 18 and a half years and had been an architect before joining the Army.
- The Sphinx
- Tombs of the Kalifs
- Mosque Mohammed Ali
- Tombs of the Mamelouks
- Thebes
- The Sphinx and the Great Pyramid
- Bab Zuwayla
- Street in the Arab quarter
- Mosque Mohammed Ali
- Mosque Mohammed Ali
- Mosque Sultan Hassan
- SS Miltiades in Port Said with British Reservists
- not titled [ships in a bay]
- Captured German steamer Lutzow
- not titled [panorama of ships in a harbour]
- A day in the trenches
- Gaba Tepe
- not titled [ships in harbour, Gaba Tepe]
- Destroyers landing troops
- HMS Triumph torpedoed off Gaba Tepe
- not titled [steamships in a harbour, Turkey]