AWM Collection Record: ART40983
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ID Number: | ART40983 |
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| Title: | Maquette for 'Simpson and his donkey 1915' | ||
| Maker: | Corlett, Peter; Victoria College Foundry | ||
| Object type: | Sculpture | ||
| Place made: | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne | ||
| Date made: | 1986 | ||
| Physical description: | bronze | ||
| Measurements: | 41.5 x 25 x 36cm | ||
| Summary: | In 1987 sculptor Peter Corlett won a competition to design a memorial to commemorate the courage and sacrifice of Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, a 3rd Field Ambulance stretcher-bearer who became the most prominent symbol of Australian courage and tenacity on Gallipoli. Corlett's winning design for the memorial, as shown by this maquette, is a reaffirmation of the essential ANZAC story, portraying a calm and resolved Simpson helping a wounded soldier, mounted on a donkey, on the dangerous journey to an aid post. 'Simpson and his donkey' was installed in the Memorial sculpture garden in 1988. | ||
| Copyright: | AWM copyright | ||
| Related subject: | Casualty movement; Donkeys; Wounded | ||
| Related unit: | Field Ambulances | ||
| Related place: | Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Gallipoli | ||
| Related conflict: | First World War, 1914-1918 |
Last-Modified: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:53:43 GMT
