• Title
  [Anzac Cove looking south, May 1915] / watercolour by Gilbert Patrick Hoskins
• Creator
  Gilbert Patrick Hoskins, 1878-1937
• Call number
  SV/153
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  May 1915
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  826014
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 11.6 x 28.5 cm. inside mount - framed
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Gilbert Patrick Hoskins was a private in the 9th Battalion AIF, part of the covering force for the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He produced a number of watercolours recording Allied naval operations from a viewpoint at an elevated post ashore.
• Scope and Content
  Shows a battleship near the shore, framed by a valley (possibly Shrapnel Gully), and the terrain looking south along the Gallipoli coastline.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This view resembles another by Hoskins (SV*/Wor W I/7) which shows the Royal Navy ship HMS Triumph at anchor on 24 May 1915, the day before her sinking (within view of the ANZAC trenches) by a German submarine. It is possible this drawing is also of HMS Triumph.
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  Digital order no:a9212001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'Gil. P. Hoskins' in brushpoint at lower right
• Date note
  
  Undated; dated from other drawings by Hoskins showing known incidents at the same location
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Turkey--Gallipoli Peninsula.
  
• Topic
  coasts
  campaigns & battles
  battleships
  watercolours
  
• Place
  Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3240632

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