Title
Cartoon for 'The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek'
(1920)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Charge of the 10th Light Horse at the Nek, Walker's Ridge, Gallipoli
- Date
- (1920)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil and white gouache? on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.9 x 71.2 cm image; 37.9 x 71.4 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, pencil "GWLambert". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1930
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 237
- Copyright
- Artist information
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George Lambert
Works in the collection
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About
The Nek was the scene of a disastrous attack at Gallipoli on 7 August 1915 in which the Light Horse Brigade suffered 372 casualties. While surveying the battlefield in 1919, Lambert's party was forced to bury the bodies of hundreds of Australian soldiers in a strip of land the size of three tennis courts. He later wrote to his wife Amy, the 'gruesome is … scattered all over
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
George Lambert Memorial Exhibition (1930), Anthony Horderns' Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, 25 Sep 1930–15 Oct 1930
Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Dec 1979–28 Jan 1980
George Lambert, 1873-1930: drawings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Feb 1993–02 May 1993
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Mad through the darkness: Australian artists and the Great War, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Apr 2015–11 Oct 2015
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Anthony Horderns' Fine Art Gallery, Lambert Memorial Exhibition, Sydney, 1930. cat.no. 92; titled 'Cartoon, Tenth Light Horse at the Nek, Walker's Ridge, Gallipoli'.
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Jane de Teliga, Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Sydney, 1979, 6.
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Anna Gray and Hendrik Kolenberg, George Lambert, 1873-1930: drawings, Sydney, 1993, 49, 52, 53 (illus.). cat.no. 56
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Andrew Yip, Look, ‘’A wonderful setting for the tragedy’: an artist captures an Anzac horror’, pg. 10-11, Sydney, Mar 2013, 10-11 (illus.).
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