ART02833 - Dardanelles from Chanak, effects of blizzard on Gallipoli
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial
- ID number
- ART02833
- Title
- Dardanelles from Chanak, effects of blizzard on Gallipoli
- Artist
- Lambert, George
- Object type
- Painting
- Place made
- Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Chanak
- Date made
- 7-14 February 1919
- Medium
- oil on artist's board
- Measurement
- overall: 20.1 x 30.1 cm Frame: 29.5 x 39.5cm
- Collection
- Art
- Description
- This view from Chanak looks towards the Gallipoli Peninsula with the Kilid Bahr Plateau covered in snow, in the background. There are remains of a jetty in the foreground. In 1919 George Lambert accompanied the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli. The Australian Historical Mission spent a week on Chanak: 'For the past 7 days we have been more of less stranded at Chanak on the Asiatic side of the Gate of the World. Snow blizzards ice & general discomfort. No coal or wood and a damp gloomy fifth rate house called the Lion Hotel, may I live to forget it.'
