Place | Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Palestine |
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Accession Number | ART19660 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 28.4 x 110 cm (three sheets) |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | pencil on paper |
Maker |
Hewett, Otho |
Place made | Ottoman Empire: Palestine |
Date made | November 1918 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Untitled [Looking to Hod el Hisha from General Royston's H.Q.]
Depicts a panoramic view of a desert area, Hod el Hisha is indicated in the middle.
Otho Hewett (1887- 1942) served with the 9th Light Horse Regiment and 3rd Light Horse Brigade Headquarters during the First World War. Trained as a designer is South Australia, he joined the ANZAC Divisional Headquarters at Romani as a panoramic artist and sketched each battlefield on the way to Jericho. He also contributed illustrations to Kia-Ora Coo-Ee, the magazine which was written and edited by Australian and New Zealand troops serving in Egypt, Palestine, Salonica and Mesopotamia, printed in Cairo and appeared in monthly issues between March and December 1918. Returning to Australia, Hewett lived in Adelaide during the 1920s and then moved to the town of Tintinara where he lived between 1929 and 1942, working as an artist, craftsman and cafe owner. He also made furniture and musical instruments. Hewett painted an Egyptian drop scene for the Tinitinara Hall when it opened in 1931 and died in 1942.