Filters
Filters (3 applied)
Clear All- related places : Europe: France (remove)
- related subjects : Civilian buildings (remove)
- type : Art (remove)
-
has sound (1)
-
has video (1)
-
related units (9)
-
maker (28)
- McCubbin, Louis Frederick (14)
- Streeton, Arthur (6)
- Longstaff, Will (5)
- Bell, George (3)
- Power, H Septimus (3)
- Bryant, Charles (2)
- Chapman, Evelyn (2)
- Devambez Imprimerie (2)
- Fullwood, A Henry (2)
- Leist, Fred (2)
- Banque Nationale de Credit (1)
- Boutet, Camille (1)
- Crozier, Frank (1)
- Forain, Jean-Louis (1)
- Fouqueray, Dominique Charles (1)
- HANSI (Waltz), Jean Jaques (1)
- Lambert, George (1)
- Lebasque, Henri (1)
- MacDonald, James Stuart (1)
- Maquet (1)
- Nash, Paul (1)
- P.J.Gallais & Cie., Edit. (1)
- SEM (Goursat, Georges) (1)
- Stewart, Allan (1)
- Union Francaise (1)
- Waller, Napier (1)
- Watt, Robert William (1)
- Woollcott, Henry (1)
Show More
Collection
69 Results
-
Amiens Cathedral
Art
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
-
An Australian Field Artillery Brigade Headquarters, near Nieuport
Art
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
-
[Army camp, Somme desert]
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the Australian Army Camp at the Somme desert, Somme, Western Front. The foreground contains horses, tents, supplies and wagons. The background also contains tents as well ...ART03082
-
Aubigny
Art
Near Aubigny; an improvised plank bridge over a river, with three trucks parked near the Aubigny end.ART03371
-
Australian artillery passing through Bapaume
Art
Maker: Waller, Napier
Depicts a number of Australian artillerymen, wearing tin helmets and great coats moving through the streets of Bapaume after the town was occupied in March 1917, with horses carrying artillery on load...ART92983
-
Bapaume church
Art
Depicts the severely damaged remains of the Bapaume church, with a statue in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav...ART02285.005
-
Bapaume from stormy trench, March 1917
Art
Depicts a panoramic, topographical view of Bapaume, on the Western Front, from Stormy Trench. Clusters of trees appear on the hills in the background and a grave marker is visible in the foreground ce...ART00133
-
Bellicourt: entrance to St Quentin Tunnel
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the entrance to the St Quentin tunnel taking the canal through the hill at Bellicourt near the Hindenburg Line on the Western Front. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of th...ART03517
-
Billeting
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Farmhouses on the Western Front being used as billeting for soldiers. In the left foreground soldiers are leaving with supplies, and there is a dung heap in the right foreground.ART02174
-
Blaringhem Church
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting the church at Blaringhem and its tower with a house nearby. Frederick Leist was a painter, illustrator and teacher. He studied at the Sydney Art School and the Art School ...ART02913
-
Bombed cathedral ruins
Art
Interior of ruined church, roof missing, piles of rubble on floor, (possibly interior of Abbey).ART19762
-
Boulogne in wartime, January 1918
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Painting of the harbour and port at Boulogne, France, during the First World War with ambulance trucks in the foreground, a French seaplane landing on the water in the middle and camouflaged troop or ...ART03612
-
Captured German howitzer near Catillon
Art
Maker: Bell, George
Depicts an image of captured German howitzers behind the war damaged village of Catillon, near the Somme, France in 1918.ART00120
-
Chateau Coisy
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the Chateau at Coisy with three Australian soldiers in the right of the image. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November...ART03078
-
Chateau, Villers-Bretonneux
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the chateau at Villers-Bretonneux with the fish pond in the foreground and ruins in the rear. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the...ART12643
-
Church at Grevillers
Art
Depicts the remains of a very badly war damaged church, attacked by the Germans, near Grevillers, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First Wo...ART02382
-
Church, Bullecourt
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
A wrecked church and debris at Bullecourt, Western Front.ART03129
-
Church: study for 'Shellhole in small building with tower'
Art
View of a church: a study for the painting 'Shellhole in small building with tower'.ART03157
-
Contours, south of France
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with farm buildings and trees foreground, steep cliffs in the background. George Lambert travelled by train through France and Italy en route to Palestine in 1918. He made a visual...ART02728
-
Corbie from above, 12th Infantry Brigade HQ
Art
Depicts a view of the landscape, river and buildings near Corbie, France, during the First World War. George Courtney Benson (1886-1960) was a painter and muralist. He studied at the National Gallery ...ART03596
-
Corbie, morning of August 8th 1918
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
A plane filies over the village of Corbie on the Western Front. Clouds of smoke billow from explosions or shell Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from No...ART03121
-
Corps Headquarters grooms' mess in Chateau Heilly
Art
Depicts a number of soldiers and officers seated, resting and talking at the grooms' and other ranks' mess in the Chateau at Heilly, France, the Headquarters of 1 Anzac Corps. Will Dyson was the first...ART02409
-
Daylight raid, France
Art
Depicted here is a raiding party incident during occupation of Strazeele Front by Australian 1st Division at Strazeele, Lys Area, Western Front. Winter was well and truly over when April arrived in ...ART03384
-
-
Distant view of Amiens
Art
Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Watercolour sketch of a windmill in the countryside with a view of Amiens and its cathedral in the distance. Albert Henry Fullwood was born in Birmingham, England in March 1863. In 1883 he sailed to ...ART50007
-
[Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux]; verso: [Covered trucks parked]
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
The right hand panel of a panorama sketch for 'Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux'. This painting depicts dugouts set in the side of earth works, a corrugated iron lean-to and two soldiers. Verso: three ...ART19796.005
-
Dump at Sercus
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts two General Service wagons, drawn by horses, being loaded with boxes and crates outside church; Third Battle of Ypres, Western Front.ART02897
-
2e Emprunt de la Defense Nationale (2nd National Defense Loan)
Art
Maker: HANSI (Waltz), Jean Jaques P.J.Gallais & Cie., Edit.
church, soldier; poster depicting a village with flags on church and houses, veterans mingling with civilians, and a soldier in the foreground, seeking subscriptions for the second national defence lo...ARTV06249
-
Glisy
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting war damage at the village of Glisy at Western Front. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 with the 10th Field ...ART03075
-
Hamel, bombardment near Albert in distance 9/8/18
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the landscape around Hamel, Western Front with a bombardment in the distance. Hamel is situated near the Somme battlefield and was the scene of significant and strategic A...ART03079
-
Horse and mule sale, Dinant, February 1919
Art
Maker: Bell, George
Depicts a horse and mule sale in the sale yards in the Belgian village of Dinant, with crowds of people, during the First World War.ART00126
-
In Bapaume the day after its occupation
Art
Depicts two soldiers, wearing waterproof capes and tin helmets, apprehensively walking through wreckage of the town of Bapaume in March 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to...ART02318
-
In Etinehem
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Sketch depicting a group of soldiers on horseback with wagons, traveling through the war damaged town of Etinehem at the Western Front. McCubbin was in Etinehem in August 1918. Louis McCubbin enlisted...ART03091
-
In Templeux-le-Guerard
Art
Maker: Stewart, Allan
Depicts a scene in the devasted village of Templeux-le-Guerard, with strings of American, Australian and German 'walking wounded' from the Battle of the Hindenburg Line, making their way to a casualty...ART09340
-
Interior of a ruined church at Villers-Bretonneux
Art
Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Inside a war-damaged church at Villers-Bretonneux, France. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefields of France with her father, who was atta...ART19586
-
Journee des régions libérées [collection day for the liberated regions of France]
Art
Maker: Fouqueray, Dominique Charles Devambez Imprimerie
This poster depicts a family group of wife, husband who comfort a daughter and a son standing before a landscape with smoke haze and in the distance there are several destroyed and burnt out buildings...ARTV06605
-
Landscape with distant buildings: sketch for model of Villers-Bretonneux
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting a landscape with the village of Marcelcave in the distance. Sketch for the Villers-Bretonneux diorama. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving...ART11426.011
-
Leave ships, Boulogne
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a number of ships in the harbour at Boulogne, Pas de Calais, Western Front during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) had some early art lessons before beginning his career as a ...ART00174
-
Le Cateau
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Preliminary sketch of an interior view of the wrecked church at Le Cateau. Note the absence of the dove Streeton included in the painting. This drawing was made in Streeton's sketchbook ART93175 and l...ART12639
-
L'Emprunt de la Paix [Peace loan]
Art
Maker: Lebasque, Henri Maquet
This French post-war poster advertises a Peace Loan and depicts scenes of reconstruction - buildings being repaired and rebuilt, factories in full operation, and farmers at work. In the foreground is ...ARTV00025
-
Le pays reconquis (Regained country)
Art
Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
In a ruined village that has been regained by the French, women and children are both joyous at being back home and greif-stricken at the destsruction of their houses. Soldiers and buildings can be se...ART50135
-
Light railways and dugouts, Bussy
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the light railways and dugouts at Bussy on the Western Front. The image also depicts buildings in the background. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 19...ART03093
-
Looking towards Bellicourt from G1 Street 62
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the view looking towards Bellicourt from G1 Street 62, with war damaged landscape and trees on both sides of the road. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF...ART13309
-
Main Corbie, Amiens Road: main dressing station of 11th Field Ambulance: heavy shelling at Hamel and Lille at rear of Corbie
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts the main dressing station of the 11th Field Ambulance situated on the main Corbie and Amiens road. In the background at the rear of Corbie, heavy shelling can be seen at Hamel and Lille. Louis...ART03045
-
Mess parade
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
A group of soldiers stand near a thatched cookhouse, holding their plates waiting for food.ART03320
-
Motor lorries, Coisy
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts trucks of the 1st AIF parked in and alongside farm outbuildings in Coisy with soldiers standing beside two trucks. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School...ART03506
-
Not titled [sketchbook containing 27 pages of drawings made in Glisy on the Western Front]
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
Artist's sketchbook covering the campaign on the Western Front during July - November 1918. The sketchbook comprises 27 pages with 46 drawings of landscapes, artillery, animals, camp life and battlefi...ART19796
-
Nous saurons nous en priver (We'll be able to go without)
Art
Maker: Boutet, Camille Union Francaise
Three small children stand out the front of a sweet shop looking at the window display. The English translation of the French text is: 'We'll be able to go without'. It suggests that children would be...ARTV06104
-
Observation Post, Strazeele
Art
An observation post in the attic of a house at Strazeele, occupied by the 1st Australian Division. The Battle of Lys took place near the village of Strazeele.ART03386
-
Opposite my billet, Rue d'Au
Art
Depicts a view of the back of a man, wearing a cloak and hat, looking up towards the face of a young woman, who peers out of a loft window at him. The window is above an old barber's shop with a tiled...ART02203
-
Our Billets
Art
Maker: Woollcott, Henry
Depicts an old, dilapidated two story French building in the countryside, with a number of chickens in the foreground and an old barn on the left of the image. The artist , Henry Woollcott, served as ...ART03577
-
Panorama of Dernancourt (section 4)
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
A view of the landscape of Dernancourt, Western Front.ART11423.004
-
Passing through a ruined village
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
Power shows the tail end of a body of troops marching past a ruined church, followed by the travelling field cooker. The cooker is drawn by two horses with a mounted driver. The limber carries rations...ART03322
-
Peelers' paradise
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts three soldiers from the 1st Australian Division of the AIF sitting near the front of a thatch-roofed house peeling vegetables, the camp kitchen is in background. This is during the Third Battl...ART03309
-
Pour le triomphe souscrivez a l'emprunt national (For triumph subscribe to the national loan)
Art
Maker: SEM (Goursat, Georges) Banque Nationale de Credit Devambez Imprimerie
First World War French poster depicts French troops marching through the Arc de Triomphe, joined by the ghosts of previous French armies with a winged marianne calling troops to war.ARTV06406
-
Rue Marle
Art
Maker: Watt, Robert William
Sketch of a house in the countryside that the artist identifies as 'Rue Marle'. His war service record states that Watt was in France at the time of the execution of the work.ART50019
-
Ruined farm near St Souplet
Art
Maker: Bell, George
Depicts a war damaged farm and outbuildings near St Souplet, on the Somme, Western Front during the First World War.ART00122
-
Ruined house: illustrating the poem 'A ruined house', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
Art
Maker: Nash, Paul
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'A ruined house', the fourth illustration in a book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London...ART20002.004
-
Somme Valley
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
A line of trees meanders through the centre of this Somme valley and leads the viewer to a small farm house on the right hand side of the composition. In the distance a view of mountains in the distan...ART11434
-
Somme Valley taking in Corbie, Hamelet
Art
St Vaire to outskirts of Hamel, from dugouts occupied by Australian troops prior to attack on Hamel, Somme Valley, Western Front.ART03373
-
Staff clerks at work, headquarters, St Gratien
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the 2nd Australian Division staff clerks at work in Divisional Headquarters communication facilities, in an improvised office at St Gratien. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painte...ART03502
-
(St Gratien: General Birdwood bidding farewell to headquarters staff)
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts staff of the 1st and 2nd Australian Divisions standing outside the chateau at St Gratien to farewell General Birdwood. The chateau was used as headquarters for the AIF. William 'Birdie' Birdwo...ART03510
-
Street in Le Cateau
Art
Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts a street corner in Le Cateau with two soldiers looking at ruins, a peasant wheeling a hand cart. Le Cateau was liberated from German occupation in October 1918 and was situated behind the Hind...ART02454
-
Sugar refinery, Pozieres
Art
Depicts the damaged remains and wreckage of sugarbeet processing and refining plant at Pozieres, on the Western Front in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fr...ART02308
-
Suzanne
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts building debris and shrubbery in the foreground, the town of Suzanne with its church in the midground and aircraft flying overhead in the background. Suzanne is in the Bray Proyart Area, Somme...ART03123
-
Unloading shell cases, Glisy Dump; verso:[Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux]
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
A sketch showing men unloading shell cases from waggons at the Glisy Dump. Verso: the left hand panel of a panorama sketch for 'Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux'. This shows some dugouts set in the sid...ART19796.004
-
[Villers Bretonneux]; verso [Villers Bretonneux]
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
View of the town of Villers Bretonneux. Verso: expanded left view sketch of the town of Villers Bretonneux. From the artist's sketchbook covering the campaign on the Western Front during July - Novemb...ART19796.006
-
Woman drawing water
Art
Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Depicts bomb-damaged buildings in a small French town. A woman is seen drawing water at centre left. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefiel...ART19591
-
Ypres from the ramparts
Art
Depicts a view of war damaged Ypres, including the ruins of the Cloth Hall and houses in the town. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War...ART02316