Study of dead horses, Moascar Accession Number: ART02730

Description

Depicts a study of three horses. Left horse with head towards artist, centre horse rear quarters, right horse disemboweled, near hind leg in air. Lambert was in the Australian Remounts Section at Moascar on 15 January 1918. He made this drawing, dated 17 January, in Moascar. At the Australian remount depot horses and mules from Australia were broken in and trained. Lambert inscribed this work with notes, observing that it was a study of dead horses that had been pulled out from the lines to be buried in the desert, and that the vet had just performed a post-mortem on the horses.

Details

Accession Number
ART02730
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: pencil, coloured pencil on cartridge paper
Measurement
sheet: 19 x 30.6 cm
Medium
pencil, coloured pencil on cartridge paper
Date Made
17 January 1918
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
acquired under official war art scheme 1920
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

Conflicts

Places

Tags

Accession ART02730

More like this

With the remounts, Moascar

Art ART02865 First World War, 1914-1918

Depicts a scene of horses and riders from the Remounts Units, Moascar, North Egypt, with a chestnut horse rearing in the foreground and a black horse bucking behind it. The remounts were horses and mu

Moascar, from Major 'Banjo' Paterson's tent

Art ART02774 First World War, 1914-1918

Depicts the Remount Camp at Moascar, North Egypt. The view of the camp is from Major 'Banjo' Paterson's tent. Andrew Barton ('Banjo') Paterson, poet and journalist, was in charge of the Remounts Sect

Colonel Duncan McLeish, Australian Remount Depot

Art ART02737 First World War, 1914-1918

Upon his arrival at Moascar, near Cairo, Lambert reported to Major 'Banjo' Paterson, who was in command of the Australian Lighthorse Remounts Unit in Egypt. Lambert was in the Australian Remounts Depo

[Horse and rider studies]; verso: [Group figure study]

Art ART19796.027 First World War, 1914-1918

recto: Studies of horse and rider, to the left is a frontal study with horse in action with right leg raised. The second study is taken from the left profile in the position of refusal with the hind l

Jack Dempsey

Art ART02716 First World War, 1914-1918

Lambert arrived in Egypt in January 1918. This was the final year of the war and many of the Australian troops were exhausted and resting in their camps. Lambert painted many of the men in camps and e

[Study for the Anzac Light Horse Memorial]

Art ART11389.015 Period 1910-1919

A horse is supporting it's weight on it's left front leg as it turns its head to the right while the rider is thrown across the back of the horse and to the left. The rider's back leg poised in the ai

See more similar items →

Record information

Last modified: 11 July 2025 - 2.24 am