Front line Sangar, with the 7th Light Horse Accession Number: ART02706

Description

Lambert made a brief visit to the front line, which in February 1918 passed through Nalin in the Judaean Hills, south of Jerusalem. He made two small oil studies as well as many pencil drawings of light horsemen who were occupying small fortified positions, known as “sangars”, built of rubble gathered from the rocky and inhospitable landscape. The figure on the left of the image with his left arm pointing towards the Turkish line is possibly Kenneth Joshua Hart, of the 7th Light Horse in Palestine.

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Accession Number
ART02706
Classification
Art
Object Type
Painting
Physical Description
Medium: oil on wood panel
Measurement
framed: 37 x 29.5 cm
unframed: 30.6 cm x 22.5 cm
Medium
oil on wood panel
Date Made
1918
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
acquired under official war art scheme 1918
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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