GALLIPOLI SKETCHES
SAPPER. MOORE JONES'S COL- . LECTION. '
Some time ago Sapper Moore a New Zealand artist who joined up with the British section of the hew Zealand Expeditionary Force, offered to the Now Zealand Government a series of water-oolour sketches of the country on Gallipoli Peninsula over which tho troops in that region- fought tho Turk. It was considered that the sketches had great historical value, as being the, best record in existence of tho battle-i grounds while the fighting was still going on. The price at that time for I the whole series was £1000, and tho artist was to have the right to publish reproductions of the pictures, ihe Government decided not to buy. Ihe question of purchase by the Government has been raised again, but now tho price "asked is £1500. It is understood that an offor has been made from' o private source to subscribe half the cost , of the pictures. On this later proposal the Government has not yot come to a decision. I
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19180926.2.21
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 1, 26 September 1918, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
169GALLIPOLI SKETCHES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 1, 26 September 1918, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in