ART02832 - Inside the fort, Chanak
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial
- ID number
- ART02832
- Title
- Inside the fort, Chanak
- Artist
- Lambert, George
- Object type
- Painting
- Place made
- Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Chanak
- Date made
- 7 February 1919
- Medium
- oil on canvas on wood panel
- Measurement
- overall: 30.4 x 20.2 cm frame: 30.3 x 20.3cm
- Collection
- Art
- Description
- In 1919 Lambert accompanied the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli. This painting shows buildings inside a fort at Chanak, seen through a large gap in the walls. The fort 'Kale Sultanieh' is at the entrance to the Dardanelles on the Asian side, and is one of a chain of forts and gun emplacements that prevented the British and French navies in 1915 from forcing their way through the narrows towards Constantinople.
