The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This sketch of landscape containing hills and valleys, it is typical of the sketches made by Lambert in the Jordan Valley.
In April 1918 Australian troops raided Es Salt across the Jordan valley. A bridgehead was established at Ghoraniye, and from this position light horsemen could see straight down the wide stream bed of the Wady Nimrin. This is a sketch for the painting 'The pimple, Ghoraniye', (ART02806) which dates from around 14 May 1918.
In April 1918 as Australian troops advanced towards Es Salt, a communication post was established at Ghoraniyeh on a small knoll rising from the Jordan Valley. From this vantage point of 150 feet, obs
Eastern side of Jordan Valley, looking from Ghoraniye bridgehead. The scene of the Turkish attack, already mentioned, against the bridgehead in April 1918. In the background can be seen the mountains
In April 1918 as Australian troops advanced towards Es Salt, a communication post was established at Ghoraniyeh on a small knoll rising from the Jordan Valley. From this vantage point of 150 feet, obs
This sketch of a Jordan Valley landscape contains a view of the artists campsite in the lower left and then builds to encompass the distant mountainous landscape in the upper right of the composition.
The valley of the River Jordan, looking towards Jerusalem, with horses and camels drinking at river. The Jordan Valley is part of the Great Rift Valley of Africa and has always been used as a route be
This contains two sketches of the landscape of the Jordan Valley contains small bomb blasts in the foreground and distant hills. The sketches contain the artists inscriptions and colour notations.
Depicts a profile portrait of Shibli Abraham Bishara, Arab proprietor farmer of Es Salt in Jordan, wearing burnous and with plaited hair. Lambert also painted the brother of the subject of this work:
