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  • Lime-Burning in the Bitumen Region, Hit Lime-Burning in the Bitumen Region, Hit

    (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald

    image: two huge clouds of smoke emanate from lime being burned in a largely flat landscape, a dark stream of liquid running from the two sites into the right foreground. There is high ground to left and right in the distance.

  • Hit: West Hit: West

    (art) Made by: Revel, John Daniel

    image: a view along a road leading into the centre of Hit, with a figure riding a mule and another figure moving along the road in the foreground. The simple, square, sandy coloured buildings of the town rise up in the background, dominated by a minaret...

  • Hit, Euphrates Hit, Euphrates

    (art) Made by: Revel, John Daniel

    image: a view into a town square in Hit, with a group of local people gathered in the shade of two buildings at the side of the square. A few other figures are walking and standing in the square, as well as a few camels. A minaret rises up in the centre...

  • Bitumen Burning: Hit Bitumen Burning: Hit

    (art) Made by: Revel, John Daniel

    image: a view of two domed mosques, both placed on mounds on either side of a stretch of the Euphrates river, near the town of Hit. In the distance to the right is a large black cloud, caused by the burning of bitumen from a nearby well.

  • A View of Hit, Euphrates A View of Hit, Euphrates

    (art) Made by: Revel, John Daniel

    image: a landscape view of the town of Hit in the distance, with a stretch of the Euphrates river in the foreground. The composition is bordered by two clouds of smoke, one drifting skywards on either side of the horizon.

  • Studies for 'A British Pilot in a BE2C approaching Hit along the Course of the River Euphrates, July 1919' (IWM ART 4617) Studies for 'A British Pilot in a BE2C approaching Hit along the Course of the River Euphrates, July 1919' (IWM ART 4617)

    (art) Made by: Carline, Sydney W 1919

    image: the back view of a pilot from the rear cockpit of a BE2C biplane in flight over the River Euphrates. The struts and wires of the wing construction surround the pilot, who is looking down and to his left. The course of the River Euphrates lies...

  • A British Pilot in a BE2C approaching Hit along the course of the River Euphrates, July 1919. A British Pilot in a BE2C approaching Hit along the course of the River Euphrates, July 1919.

    (art) Made by: Carline, Sydney W 1919

    image: The back view of a pilot from the rear cockpit of a BE2C. The struts and wires of the wing structure surround the pilot, who wears helmet and goggles and is looking down and to his left, leaning slightly out of the cockpit. The River Euphrates...