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Accession Number | ART11389 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall - Closed: 30.4 x 24.6 cm; Overall - Open: 30.4 cm x 49 cm |
Object type | Sketchbook |
Physical description | pencil on paper |
Maker |
Lambert, George |
Place made | Ottoman Empire: Palestine |
Date made | 1919 |
Conflict |
Period 1910-1919 First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Coverless sketchbook containing 30 sketches of horses, landscape and Anzac Light Horse Memorial 1919
Description
George Lambert, an official war artist in Middle East 13 Jan 1918 to June 1918 travelled with Bean on a historical mission to Gallipoli in February to March 1919, and then revisited Palestine. On his return, he worked on many commissioned paintings for the Memorial's collection. This sketchbook which was made on this tour of the Middle East, contains thirty pages of drawings of figures, horses, ambulances, a landscape and studies for The Anzac Light Horse memorial.
- [Group of soldiers, possibly at Cairo railway station]
- [Egyptian boy wearing hat]
- [Kneeling figure]
- [Soldier in position of riding a horse]
- [Study of Egyptian head, with buildings]
- [Three studies of sheep heads]
- [Study for 'The Anzacs']
- [Soldier restraining rearing horse]
- [Studies for The Anzac Light Horse memorial]
- [Studies for The Anzacs]
- [study of two horses and two AIF soldiers for 'The Anzacs']
- [study for 'The Anzacs']
- [Four studies of Egyptian man's head, one with fez]
- [Study for 'The Anzacs']
- [Study for the Anzac Light Horse Memorial]
- [Study for 'The Anzacs']
- [Study for 'The Anzacs']
- [Study for 'The Anzacs']
- [Study of soldier's head]
- [Two studies of a male figure in robe]
- [A single study of a horse]
- [Two studies of a horse's leg]
- [Five studies of a horse's leg]
- [Two horses with bridles and saddles]
- [Sand cart]
- [Two studies of soldiers on horseback]
- [Study for ambulance wagon]
- [Soldier holding binoculars]
- [Portrait of Australian soldier wearing slouch hat, left profile]
- [Beersheba landscape, with artist's colour notes]