Headquarters, Desert Corps Accession Number: ART02680

Description

This was painted about one-and-a-half miles to the east of Talaat ed Dumm, where General Chauvel had established this camp as his headquarters beside the Jericho road. Lambert stayed in the camp in May 1918, when he visited the Jordan Valley. Lambert has depicted the camp as he saw it, a landscape filled with tents and telegraph poles. Hills are visible in the distance and there is a dog pictured to the lower right of the work.

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Accession Number
ART02680
Classification
Art
Object Type
Painting
Physical Description
Medium: oil on wood panel
Measurement
framed: 22 x 28.2 cm
unframed: 15.6 cm x 21.9 cm
Medium
oil on wood panel
Date Made
1918
Place Made
Gallery location
Main Bld: First World War Gallery, Sinai Palestine 1917
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Acquired under official war art scheme 1918
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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