THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE - LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1888-1935)AN IVORY SILK DESERT ROBE
拍品 536 Property from the Collection of David Gainsborough Roberts
Born in North Wales in 1888, T.E. Lawrence was a British scholar, writer and soldier. Soon after World War One started, he joined the British Army and was stationed in Egypt. In 1916 he was sent to Arabia where he mobilised the Arab Revolt and became liaison officer to the son of the Revolt's leader. He became internationally known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'. After the war, he served a brief spell as a diplomat before serving in both the RAF and The Tanks Corps in the 1920s and 1930s. Lawrence was killed in a fatal motorcycle accident after leaving the RAF in 1935.

THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE - LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1888-1935)AN IVORY SILK DESERT ROBE

CIRCA 1916

已結束2016年9月14日

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THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE - LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1888-1935)
AN IVORY SILK DESERT ROBE
CIRCA 1916
With buttoned neck opening, one sleeve apparently later

By tradition: T. E. Lawrence.
Given to his close friend, Arthur Russell's mother.
Thence by descent.
Sotheby's, London, 2 November 1995, lot 186.

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Arthur Russell met Lawrence when both enrolled in the Tanks Corps in 1923 and shared a barracks hut in Bovington Camp, Dorset. This robe was one of two given to Arthur Russell's mother. Lawrence told her to cut them up and make dresses out of them. Luckily, Arthur Russell managed to save this one from her scissors, but not before a sleeve had been removed. This appears, now, to have been replaced.