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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 John Simpson Kirkpatrick and his donkey was done when Moore-Jones was touring his watercolours in Dunedin in 1918, three years after the Gallipoli landings.
The photograph this painting is based on is actually of a New Zealand medic, Richard Henderson. Henderson served in Gallipoli and later on the Western Front. Moore-Jones altered the composition of the photo to make for a more dramatic drawing.
- Find out more about Horace Moore-Jones
- Find out more about Simpson (John Simpson Kirkpatrick) on Wikipedia
Alexander Turnbull Library,
Reference:C-057-002,
Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Library through its Timeframes website,
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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