A complete set of 10 lithographs, in the original folder with accompanying descriptive booklet with forward by General Sir Ian Hamilton and Lt General Sir Alexander Godley. Published by Hugh Rees, London in 1916, this is a very rare First Edition. These works are in totally original condition and have never been framed.
Horace Moore-Jones (New Zealand 1868-1922) The Coast Of ANZAC Photo Lithograph, 12.5 x 72.5 cm, A Sketch from H.M.S. Manica, May 5th, 1915 Published Hugh Rees, London 1916 Jonathan Grant Gallery 280 Parnell Road Parnell Auckland 1151 +64 9 308 9125 www.jgg.co.nz jg@jgg.co.nz
Horace Moore-Jones (New Zealand 1868-1922) ANZAC Cove Photo Lithograph, 15 x 67.5 cm, The Historic Landing Place of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, April 25th, 1915 Published Hugh Rees, London 1916 Jonathan Grant Gallery 280 Parnell Road Parnell Auckland 1151 +64 9 308 9125 www.jgg.co.nz jg@jgg.co.nz
Horace Moore-Jones (New Zealand 1868-1922) The Coast North of ANZAC Cove Photo Lithograph, 14 x 57.5 cm, Showing Plugge's Plateau, The Sphinx, Walker's ridge, and Russell's Top. Published Hugh Rees, London 1916 Jonathan Grant Gallery 280 Parnell Road Parnell Auckland 1151 +64 9 308 9125 www.jgg.co.nz jg@jgg.co.nz
Horace Moore-Jones (New Zealand 1868-1922) The Historic Positions Photo Lithograph, 14 x 52.5 cm, Pope's, Quinn's, Courtney's etc. Sketched from the Inner Lines on the Heights above Anzac Cove Published Hugh Rees, London 1916 Jonathan Grant Gallery 280 Parnell Road Parnell Auckland 1151 +64 9 308 9125 www.jgg.co.nz jg@jgg.co.nz
Horace Moore-Jones (New Zealand 1868-1922) Turk Entrenched Positions Photo Lithograph, 14 x 53.5 cm, Sketch looking North-East, descriptive of the country immediately in front of our Firing Lines Published Hugh Rees, London 1916 Jonathan Grant Gallery 280 Parnell Road Parnell Auckland 1151 +64 9 308 9125 www.jgg.co.nz jg@jgg.co.nz
Biography of Sapper Horace Moore-Jones New Zealand (1868 – 1922) Horace Millichamp Moore-Jones was a painter in oil, watercolour and pastels. Born in England in 1868, he settled in Auckland with his parents in 1885. He moved to Sydney in 1888, studying art in both Sydney and London. Moore-Jones enlisted in the British section of the NZEF (New Zealand Expeditionary Force) in 1914, aged 47, and served as a Sapper in the 1st Company NZ Engineers at Gallipoli. There, he worked for Lieutenant-General Sir William Birdwood's Anzac Corps Headquarters as a topographical draughtsman. He also worked on a large series of watercolours and drawings of the Anzac landscape, some of which were later completed in England. Towards the end of 1915 his drawing hand was injured. While recovering in England, he somehow managed to produce nearly 80 watercolours of Gallipoli.
These watercolours were first exhibited at New Zealand House, London, in April 1916, and were received well by the military and public. The head of the NZEF, Alexander Godley, stated: ‘Nothing that I have seen or read on the subject of Anzac brings more vividly to my memory the pleasantest features of our sojourn there.’ Moore-Jones was more critical of his experience, saying that Gallipoli was like eight months of hell: ‘You can imagine what it must be like to live, day after day, facing plateaus that are covered with one’s dead comrades, whose faces had grown black by the time we could reach them, and the overpowering sickening stench. And what it meant to sit, eating one’s bread and jam surrounded by millions of flies who had been bred on dead bodies.’
Moore-Jones also had a private showing to the Royal Family. A portfolio of his prints was published in 1916, and an exhibition of his works toured New Zealand in 1917 to raise funds for the RSA. The New Zealand Government turned down the opportunity to purchase this collection, which was later purchased by Australia for the Australian War Memorial. Moore-Jones’ 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 showing his watercolours in Dunedin in 1918. He altered the composition of the photo to make the image more dramatic. Moore-Jones died of burns received while rescuing people from the Hamilton Hotel fire in 1922.
Horace Moore-Jones (New Zealand 1868-1922) The Australian Positions. Extreme Right Photo Lithograph, 20 x 54.5 cm, Showing Bolton's Hill and the Turk positions at Gaba Tepe, the Olive Grove and Achi Baba Published Hugh Rees, London 1916 Jonathan Grant Gallery 280 Parnell Road Parnell Auckland 1151 +64 9 308 9125 www.jgg.co.nz jg@jgg.co.nz
Horace Moore-Jones (New Zealand 1868-1922) Outposts Nos. 1,2, and 3 Photo Lithograph, 18 x 70 cm, Showing the Trenchess winding through the country by which communication was maintained between Walker's Ridge, The outpost, and Suvla, via Fisherman's Hut Published Hugh Rees, London 1916 Jonathan Grant Gallery 280 Parnell Road Parnell Auckland 1151 +64 9 308 9125 www.jgg.co.nz jg@jgg.co.nz
Horace Moore-Jones (New Zealand 1868-1922) Looking North Over Shrapnel Gully Photo Lithograph, 14x 59.5 cm, Showing the Inner and outer Lines, Deadman's Ridge etc. Published Hugh Rees, London 1916 Jonathan Grant Gallery 280 Parnell Road Parnell Auckland 1151 +64 9 308 9125 www.jgg.co.nz jg@jgg.co.nz
Horace Moore-Jones (New Zealand 1868-1922) The Sphinx Photo Lithograph, 21.6 x 56 cm, Published Hugh Rees, London 1916
Jonathan Grant Gallery 280 Parnell Road Parnell Auckland 1151 +64 9 308 9125 www.jgg.co.nz jg@jgg.co.nz
Horace Moore-Jones (New Zealand 1868-1922) The Terrible Country Towards Suvla Photo Lithograph, 17.8 x 69.8 cm, Published Hugh Rees, London 1916
Jonathan Grant Gallery 280 Parnell Road Parnell Auckland 1151 +64 9 308 9125 www.jgg.co.nz jg@jgg.co.nz
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