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| Accession Number | ART02864 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | framed: 20.2 x 29.2 cm; unframed: 14 x 23 cm |
| Object type | Painting |
| Physical description | oil on cigar box lid |
| Maker |
Lambert, George |
| Place made | Egypt: North Egypt, Moascar |
| Date made | 15-17 January 1918 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Sunrise, Moascar
Description
Depicts a landscape at sunrise, with tents in silhouette. There are two bi-planes in the sky. This was one of the first oils George Lambert made after commencing his work as an official war artist. "My first job was to make some small paintings of our great base camp at Moascar near Ismalia a few miles from the Suez Canal and here my first impressions gained were worth recording. Miles & miles of tents and desert, thousands of sweating sun bronzed men and beautiful horses. Tents by the bye that is miles of tents out there to the artist give a continuous but ever changing problem in colour, line, & form."