The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Several pencil studies that concentrate on the supine figure of the soldier with his gun at the ready which comprises part of the grouping of figures represented in the sculpture 'The Anzacs' which was created for the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial Competition.
The figure lying on the ground with his rifle at the ready represents a typical New Zealander steadily firing at the enemy. Lambert experiments here with many different viewing angles of this figure.
The Desert Mounted Corps Memorial was to commemorate all the Australian Mounted Divisions, the Australian Flying Corps and every other Australian and New Zealand unit and formation that served in Egypt, Palestine and Syria from 1916 to 1918.
A pencil study from side on for 'The Anzacs' (The Desert Mounted Corps Memorial competition) and it is a development of the last sketch (ART11389.011) with minor changes. It presents the figure groupi
A soldier walks along the left side of a saddled horse. This is a study for the figure and horse that appears on 'The Anzacs', Lambert's entry in the Desert Mounted Corps memorial competition.
Studies that experiment with the plinth supporting 'The Anzacs', Lambert's entry for the Desert Mounted Corps memorial competition.
A preparatory study for 'The Anzacs' using mutiple horse and figure composition. One horse is laying on the ground while another rests it's forequarters across it's girth. A horse from behind rears up
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
Light Horseman mounted on rearing horse, while NZ Mounted Rifleman is dismounting as his horse scrambles to its feet, created to commemorate the Australians and New Zealanders of the Desert Mounted Co
