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Simpson and his donkey, Gallipoli painting
Horace Millichamp Moore-Jones, Private Simpson, D.C.M., & his donkey at Anzac, 1918.
Moore-Jones’s most widely recognised work was not painted at the battlefront, but from a photograph. His depiction of Private Simpson and his donkey was done when Moore-Jones was touring his watercolours in Dunedin in 1918, three years after the Gallipoli landings. He altered the composition of the photo to make for a more dramatic drawing.
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- Find our more about Simpson (John Simpson Kirkpatrick) on Wikipedia
Alexander Turnbull Library,
Reference:C-057-002,
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Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any reuse of this image.
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