The Dead Sea, from the Mount of Olives

Depicts a landscape looking down from mountains to the blue water of the Dead Sea, with the Moabite Mountains in the distance. The Mount of Olives is on the outskirts of Jerusalem and overlooks the city, the Dead Sea and the crucial road to Jericho. Lambert was there in late February 1918 and painted the view from the gardens of the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria Hospice, once German headquarters but occupied by the British commander, General Chetwode. Looking down from the Mount, Lambert wrote that the distant Mountains of Moab "were beautifully projected by the light of the dying sun and ...there was a curious illusion that one could throw a stone into the sea although it was twenty-five miles below."