ESTATE & COLLECTABLE AUCTION
Thursday, 19 - Monday, 23 November 2020

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WWI LITHOGRAPH SIMPSON AND HIS DONKEY

Realised: $460 plus premium

Lot Details

An original production colour lithograph 'Heroes of the Red Cross; Private Simpson; D.C.M & his Donkey at Anzac; from the original water-colour drawing by Sapper H. Moore-Jones'. Inscribed in the image: 'To the memory of our Hero Comrade Murphy (Simpson) Killed May 1915. Sapper H. Moore-Jones 1915'. 330 x 245mm. Simpson; a stretcher bearer in the Gallipoli Campaign worked for only three and a half weeks; often under fire; until he was killed; the story becoming a key element of the Anzac legend. The image painted by Moore-Jones was actually worked from a photograph of NZ Medical Corps Pte. Dick Henderson who performed the same deeds for a period of six weeks at Gallipoli; later serving at the Somme where he was awarded the MM. See: military.wikia.org/wiki/John_Simpson_Kirkpatrick and military.wikia.org/wiki/Richard_Alexander_Henderson.

WWI LITHOGRAPH SIMPSON AND HIS DONKEY Image 1++