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Maker: Lindsay, Norman Commonwealth Government of Australia Syd. Day, The Printer Ltd
Poster depicts a German ogre, his blood-covered hands and forearms clutching at a globe of the world. Blood pours over Europe, and slowly oozes towards other countries, demonstrating the threat of th...ARTV00078
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A call from the Dardanelles...
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Maker: Burton, H M The Defence Department of the Commonwealth S.T. Leigh & Co. Ltd
This recruiting poster employs the theme of Australians fighting at Gallipoli to encourage men to enlist. A tall strong digger wearing a slouch hat and rising sun badge stands astride the Narrows, one...ARTV05167
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A crash in the desert
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a desert landscape, with a small aeroplane on the ground and figure to the right of the plane. Aircraft such as this, possibly a BE12 or RE8, were used at the beginning of the war for reconnai...ART02684
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Advanced dressing station at Smith's Farm, near Corbie
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the dressing station of the 6th Australian Field Ambulance in May 1918 amongst farm buildings belonging to the Smith family. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidel...ART16250
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Advanced dressing station, Middle Harbour
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the advanced dressing station at Middle Harbour, with a wall protected by sandbags and hessian camouflage screening above, set into slope of hill. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the ...ART03505
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Advance dressing station, 2nd Field Ambulance
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Depicts the advance dressing station of the Australian Forces 2nd Field Ambulance, with a motor ambulance in the background. In the foreground there is a table with medical supplies arranged on it, a ...ART19763
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A favourite charger with groom, Anzac Mounted Division
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts Private George Shelton Lambert, a groom with 11th Light Horse Regiment, holding a troop horse. Despite the artist's title, 'A favourite charger' [i.e. officer's horse], this horse wears the di...ART02837
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Air Vice-Marshal Frank McNamara
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Maker: Honisett, Ray
Depicts a montage portrait of First World War and Second World War No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corp and No. 5 Flying Training School; Air Vice Marshal Frank Hubert McNamara, VC, CBE, RAAF. The wo...ART29094
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A l'hopital (At the hospital)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A young officer, with an amputated leg, and a nurse, stand beside a hospital bed where a fellow soldier lies. The soldier with the amputated leg remarks: 'Don't feel sorry for yourself. You will be ab...ART50142
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All together. Enlist in the navy
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Maker: Reuterdahl, Henry US Navy Unknown
recruitment, sailors, patriotism; recruiting poster for the US Navy, depicting sailors from Japan, USA, United Kingdom, Imperial and, with the flag of each country beneath and warships in the backgrou...ARTV06112
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A man short: are you the man
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Maker: Unknown The State recruiting Committee Syd. Day, The Printer Ltd
Australian First World War recruitment poster. It depicts a tug-of-war between four German soldiers and three Australian soldiers. A signpost in the middle points to 'oppression' on the German side, a...ARTV07335
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Amiens Cathedral
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the Amiens Cathedral visible above trees and rooftops. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. Hi...ART03491
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Amiens Cathedral
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the Amiens Cathedral and surrounding village buildings. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Ho...ART03002
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Amiens, the key of the west
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Streeton believed that Amiens, the key of the west, which refers to the events of 8 August 1918 and the fighting in the Somme area that led up to this day, was one of his most important works. Amiens ...ART12436
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Ammunition dump at Daours
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts the ammunition dump near Daours with horse drawn vehicles and stacked boxes in ammunition dump concealed in a grove of trees on the right. The left of the image contains civilian buildings, te...ART02489
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Ammunition dump, Glisy
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts an ammunition dump at Glisy screened by camouflage netting, a warning sign post, stacks of shells for 18-pounder guns, a separate stack for fuze caps, some shells in steel ammunition boxes and...ART03486
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A native belle
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of the head and shoulders of a Palestinian woman with curly dark hair wearing a dark close-fitting head-dress and an open-necked dress (turned towards the left of the image).ART02685
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An Australian Field Artillery Brigade Headquarters, near Nieuport
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Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, Australian Siege Artillery Brigade and a view from the headquarters of Artillery Brigade. One man is seated and talking on the telephone, while th...ART02343
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[An Austro-Hungarian unit in their billets]
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Maker: Gardener, Arthur
A group of soldiers wearing caps seated relaxing in a room with arched windows. They are troops from an unidentified Austro-Hungarian unit in their billets. This work was done while Arthur Gardener wa...ART50049
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An Egyptian girl, Cairo
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of woman wearing a long blue dress, a brown veil over her hair, bracelets on both wrists, hands clasped in front. This drawing was made by Lambert in Cairo in April 1918.ART02794
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An old tomb of Jerusalem
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Maker: Ivers, T H
Depicts an old tomb in the Mohammedan Cemetery in Jerusalem with vegetation growing on the dome and a soldier standing in front with his hands in his pockets.ART02605
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Anzac Cove
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Maker: Lambert, George
Towards the end of his stay on Gallipoli with the Australian Historical Mission, Lambert made a painting of ANZAC Cove with the hills of Suvla in the distance. Lambert wrote on 5 March 1919: "In the a...ART02839
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Anzac, from Gaba Tepe
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a view over Anzac Cove, looking from the hillside of Gaba Tepe across the water towards the hills beyond. George Lambert wrote on 27 February, 1919: 'To-day the Mission visited Gaba Tepe, fro...ART02825
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Anzac looking south
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Depicts a panoramic view of the battlefield and general view of Anzac area at Gallipoli, looking south. Benson did reconnaissance sketches for the First Division on the Gallipoli Peninsula from April...ART00144
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ANZACS
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Maker: Laboureur, Jean-Emile
This image in which two Anzac soldiers stand with their hands on their hips and slouch hats over their eyes. A third sits to the left smoking a pipe. Behind them another Anzac sits in a horse-drawn wa...ART92100
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Anzac, the landing 1915
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Maker: Lambert, George
Australian troops ascending ridge to Plugge's Plateau, The Sphinx, Walker's Ridge and Baby 700 on skyline, steep, rocky hillside at Gallipoli, the terrain prohibitive. Many of the soldiers are dead, o...ART02873
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Anzac 'walking wounded'
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Wounded Gallipoli soldier on crutches, the figure reminiscent of ancient Greek statues such as Kouros, the sculptures that were young nude Greek youths. The statues embodied the idea of youth and the ...ART91224
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Anzac, watering horses
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Watering horses at Anzac. Nolan stated in an interview (13 April 1978) that horses in the 'Gallipoli' series relate to Homeric mythology rather than the actual Gallipoli story - the Homeric soldiers w...ART91206
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A present from home
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
A soldier sitting on an upturned crate looking at a 'Home Cookery' cookbook. The soldier has food on the ground around his feet and is boiling water in a tin on a fire at his feet. His staple rations ...ART00052
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Apres le combat (After the combat)
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Maker: Lepere, Auguste Sagot
Dead bodies are gathered up after the fighting. This print is plate 13 from the first portfolio of 18 woodcuts, 'La guerre de 1914', published by Sagot, Paris, 1915.ART50258
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'Apricot again?'
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a soldier's face in right profile and upper chest. The soldier is looking aghast due to the rations for the day. It is a comment on the monotonous diet that was issued to the soldiers during t...ART00025.001
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Arab huts, Jericho
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with Arabs, huts and a goat in the foreground, palm and other trees in the middle ground and steep hills behind a plain in the distance.ART02709
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Arab Mare, Es Salt (The famous mare of Es Salt)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a Bedouin with a turban and blue and mauve clothes sits on a chestnut Arabian horse with four white feet and a decorated bridle and horse rug. A well-known and friendly sheikh sat for the arti...ART02682
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Arabs by the sea
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with the sea in the background. A group of Arab men, women and children, stand at the top of a cliff, with their goats, horse, donkeys and dog. Figure lying lower right, blacks goa...ART11384
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Arbeiter, Bürger, Bauern, Soldaten Aller Stämme Deutschlands [Workers, Citizens, Farmers, Soldiers All the Peoples of German]
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Maker: Klein, Cesar Unknown Unknown
This First World War German poster depicts a number of workers forming a united front, standing together in unification. A faceless crowd outlined in black stand in repeat of this stance on the hill t...ARTV06638
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A reputation befouled
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Maker: Daily News
Depicts the cartoon published in the London 'Daily News', 26 October 1915, commenting on the execution of Edith Cavell, a British nurse accused by the Germans of being a spy. The slumped and bloodied ...ART02419
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Armistice Day
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Maker: Hanrahan, Barbara
Hanrahan depicts four women with their first names above the images from l-r: Alice, Molly, Dawn, Mary. Behind them on the wall are the images of six men l-r: Bob, Willy, Ron, Charlie, Arthur, David. ...ART29756
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Armoured car
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the Austin Armoured 1918 Pattern armoured car, with modified wheels and armoured cabinet at rear, on the Bapaume Road near Albert. In front is a partially sketched motor vehicle with its cabri...ART03511
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Assisting Queensland's patriotic day
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Maker: Templeton, P S Queensland Public Service A J Cumming, Government Printer
This early recruitment poster published by the Queensland government is a direct reference to Australia's involvement in the Dardanelles campaign. A kangaroo, dressed in the uniform of an Australian p...ARTV00150
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"At the landing and here ever since"
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
A caricatured portrait of the head and shoulders of a 'typical' Australian soldier on the Gallipoli peninsula. He is smoking a cigarette, has teeth missing and a band aid on his chin. This work was u...ART00025.002
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Auja crossing, Jordan
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with river. Low wooden bridge resting on pontoons. Two horses crossing bridge. White mule with head down right. Mounted horsemen on bank extreme right. Horses in distance centre, t...ART02691
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Australian burning effigy of Kaiser in square, Armistice Day
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a crowd of soldiers in Peronne square, surrounded by building skeletons, damaged by war. They are gathered around a bonfire with an effigy of Kaiser hanging from gallows. Arthur Streeton is b...ART03523
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Australian flying squadron aerodrome, near Villers-Bocage
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts an RE8 aircraft standing near a group of tents at Villers-Bocage in France. One aircraft is seen in the right foreground, another at the left distance and one in the air. Arthur Streeton is be...ART03526
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Australian Hospital, Abbeville
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the Number 3 Australian General Hospital at Abbeville with large tents used as hospital wards, and in the background are wooden buildings. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters ...ART12649
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Australian 9.2 howitzer
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Although 'Australian 9.2 howitzer' was painted in 1919, immediately after the war, it clearly represents a scene from the last phase of the fighting. The centrepiece is a large howitzer, the heaviest ...ART03004
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Australian troop horse, full marching order
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Maker: Lambert, George
Study of a bay troop horse wearing a 1902 pattern bridle, 1912 Universal Pattern saddle, and brown saddle blanket. Attached to the saddle is a pair of saddle wallets, greatcoat, rolled grey blanket, a...ART02689
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Australien (Australian)
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Maker: Pasquet
A full standing figure of a veteran Australian soldier wearing a slouch hat, and with his left hand in his pocket and a walking stick in his right hand.ART50160
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Avec la carte nous en aurons peu... (With the [ration] card we will have little...)
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Maker: Colas, Yvonne Comite National de Prevoyance & d'Economies Union Francaise
French First World War poster promoting the conservative use of sugar. This poster was one of a series published by the French Comite National de Prevoyance & d'Economies (National Committee of Planni...ARTV06110
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Ayunkara (Richon le Zion)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a bare, undulating landscape with the remains of animals in the foreground. There are two horses on top of the hill on the right of the image. In February 1918, Lambert visited the ANZAC Mount...ART02697
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Back at Mouquet Farm
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Depicts two unidentified infantrymen, of the 4th Australian division, possibly part of a Vickers machine gun squad, near Mouquet Farm. The man in front is holding a water cooling can for a Vickers Mar...ART02248