| Places | |
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| Accession Number | ART02722 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | sheet: 12.6 x 17.8 cm; image: 9.8 x 17.8 cm |
| Object type | Work on paper |
| Physical description | pencil on paper |
| Maker |
Lambert, George |
| Place made | Egypt: Suez Canal, Ferry Post |
| Date made | 25 January 1918 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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The canal and lake, Ferry Post, Ismailia
Description
Lambert has depicted a lake at Ismailia in Egypt with a dhow, feluccas and a jetty in the foreground. Ismailia was a town established by the Suez Canal Company in 1863, situated where the Suez Canal is joined by the sweet water canal from the Nile at Lake Timesh. It is approximately midway between Suez and Port Said and is the Western end of the central route across Sinai. Lambert was in the Middle East from 13 January 1918 to June 1918 with C.E. W. Bean and on the Historical Mission to Gallipoli, Feb to March 1919, then revisited Palestine. During the 1920s he worked on Australian War Memorial commissions.