First camel study : [Sketches of camels is use by Australians in World War I, ca 1918] / drawn by George Washington Lambert

SSV*/Sp Coll/Lambert/4

fonds

ca 1918

Graphic Materials, Drawings

457979

Drawings - 1 pencil drawing - 30.4 x 18.9 cm.

George Washington Lambert (1873-1930), artist, was born on 13 September 1873 at St Petersburg. The family decided to migrate and George, reaching Sydney with his mother and three sisters in the Bengal on 20 January 1887. In December 1917 he was appointed an official war artist, A.I.F. with the honorary rank of lieutenant. Lambert was in the Australian Remounts Section at Moascar on 15 January, 1918. After several years in England and Europe, Lambert returned to Australia in 1921, and died on 29 May 1930 at Cobbity, near Camden. He was buried in the Anglican section of South Head cemetery. Further reference: 'George W. Lambert retrospective: heroes & icons' / Anne Gray, ML Q759.994/682. 'George Lambert 1873-1930 catalogue raisonne' by Anne Gray, 1996, ML Q759.994/L222.1/2. Australian Dictionary of Biography online edition.

Date of work is based on Lambert's time at Moascar.

Titled: First Camel Study, Moascar; unsigned; undated.
At bottom of sketch: '15th Coy. 3rd Anzac Batt. N.Z. Coy. I.C.C. No.7'