Tiberias

Places
Accession Number ART02822
Collection type Art
Measurement framed: 25 x 40 cm; unframed: 15 x 30.5 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on wood panel
Location Main Bld: First World War Gallery: Sinai Palestine 1917
Maker Lambert, George
Place made Ottoman Empire: Palestine, North Palestine, Lake Tiberias, Tiberias
Date made 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicts a landscape of fields with stone walls in front of a town with a mosque and white flat-topped buildings. Lake Tiberias (the Sea of Gallilee) and hills are seen in the background. Tiberias, on the west coast of the sea of Gallilee, was captured on 25 September 1918 by Major Macpherson of the 8th Light Horse Regiment.