Allenby

[tr ed p 322], pastel, Kennington, 240 x 171 mm

'Allenby' typeset in border, trc. Main colours: black, red on face and neck, and startlingly blue eyes. Narrow border is printed in similar dark grey to background in attempt to give the appearance that the illustration is bled off the page all round.

General Sir Edmund Allenby, Commander-in-Chief in Egypt and Palestine, 1917-18.

p 303 [tr ed p 321] - ' . . . Allenby was physically large and confident, and morally so great that the comprehension of our littleness came slow to him.'

pp 552/3 [tr ed p 565] - 'There were qualities like courage which could not stand alone, but must be mixed with a good or bad medium to appear. Greatness in Allenby showed itself other, in category: self-sufficient, a facet of character, not of intellect. It made superfluous in him ordinary qualities; intelligence, imagination, acuteness, industry, looked silly beside him. He was not to be judged by our standards, any more than the sharpness of bow of a liner was to be judged by the sharpness of razors. He dispensed with them by his inner power.'

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