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.
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Accession Number
ART02730
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
Credit Line
acquired under official war art scheme 1920
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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