Antique Nurses

After his first wife, Mary Ann, died in 1857 he began a relationship with the nurse to his ailing wife - she gave birth to his only daughter, Alice, a year later but they would not e...

His sketches were gifted to doctors and nurses, who took them to a local art emporium for framing.

The author briefly served overseas as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army, sustained injuries, and met a nurse who he eventually proposed marriage to but was declined.

On another deck, the King and his party stop to greet the uniformed medical staff, including nurses. An aide introduces each medical staff person by name, and the King shakes hands w...

The house was also used as the set for the 2007 film Agnes Jones, that was based on the life of a young nurse from nearby Fahan, who trained with Florence Nightingale.  

When Margaret fell ill in 1970, Goodall nursed her, and so turned to book illustration as a form of art he could complete at home.

The needed support both financially, through the purchase of war bonds and rationing, and emotionally, through volunteer service (men for the military, women for the nurse corps), di...

This was the first educational institution created for the training of black nurses in Houston. Houston Negro Hospital was not successful in its first few years as it lacked patie...

They needed support financially, through the purchase of war bonds and rationing, and emotionally, through volunteer service (men for the armed forces, women for the nurse corps), di...

One such naturalistic painting is a large canvas, The Wet Nurse Agency, which depicts the unusual subject of mothers interviewing wet nurses for their newborn babies.

During the First World War, Picart le Doux was incorporated into the army where he served as a nurse in the trenches. He returned wounded and sick.

In 1881, Sanitary Commission nurse Clara Barton would carry the torch forward, expanding upon the concept to form the Red Cross.

He appears for the first time in Turin in 1756, when a documented payment was made by the royal house for a portrait of Giuseppina di Savoia (the future Countess of Provence) along w...

He produced decorative compositions, most of them destined for various public buildings in Paris: St Julian the Nurse in 1883, Joan of Arc in 1885, The Park in 1901 for the town hall...

He produced decorative compositions, most of them destined for various public buildings in Paris: St Julian the Nurse in 1883, Joan of Arc in 1885, The Park in 1901 for the town hall...

I dream of him every night; Pray remember me to nurse ... tell her I heartily rejoice y' her Master has a tooth ... pray let me know if his tooth be on the upper or lower side.”

He produced decorative compositions, most of them destined for various public buildings in Paris: St Julian the Nurse in 1883, Joan of Arc in 1885, The Park in 1901 for the town hall...

Perrot reproduced two of his works from the cabinet of Madame de Saint-Maurice, Childhood in the Countryside and Visit to the Nurse, for the philanthropic society founded in particul...

Here for your consideration is a finely painted, delicate work of a young French nurse directly attributed to the artist, Pierre Edouard Frere.

This is an antique Edwardian nurses belt buckle crafted in sterling silver. An excellent slightly curved shape buckle, decorated with pierced work pattern and engraved foliage.

THIS IS A SUPERB SIGNED FRANZ BERGMANN ANTIQUE AUSTRIAN VIENNA BRONZE OF A CAT NURSE DELIVERING A NEWBORN KITTEN TO THE WAITING MOTHER IN HER HOSPITAL BED.

After breaking his arm, he recovered with the help of a friendly nurse Dorothy T. Dravis, whom he married. Dzigurski wanted to capture the beauty of America's seas and mountains by d...

This style of buckle has been around for a long time - both to secure sweaters, capes, cloaks, as well as belts. A nurse's buckle is the traditional graduation gift for nurses.

Fine Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Nurse’s Belt Buckle depicting Flora designs and TRADIMUS LAMPADA (we hand on the torch) on front; exceptional quality with well modeled design and lo...

A rare windup Hawkeye "Measured Timer" the first mass produced industrial design by Noguchi before the "Radio Nurse". This simple and sculptural piece of art was crafted in the early...

Rams symbolize filial piety, the most important of Chinese virtues, because rams kneel to nurse from their mothers. Apart from being considered filial, rams are also believed to be ...

Also, perfect for a commercial space where notification is necessary, or one needs to call out as for a nurse or help? A turtle represents healing, wisdom, spirituality, health, ...

Call us not weeds, but flowers of the Sea, For lovely and bright and gay tinted are we, And alike independent of sunshine and showers, Then call us not weeds, we are Ocean's gay f...

Call us not weeds, but flowers of the Sea, For lovely and bright and gay tinted are we, And alike independent of sunshine & showers, Then call us not weeds, we are Ocean's gay flo...

The Red Cross is personified as a beautiful nurse cradling a sick soldier, who is laying in a cot.

The poster features a Red Cross nurse beckoning with outstretched arms, as the figure of Uncle Sam rests a hand on her shoulder from behind.

Each of the four is a different coat of arms, complete with their unique Latin motto~ Sedberg School in North West, England, coat of arms that also has “dura virum nutrix” meaning “...

This was done so Hamilton could use the movement for as pendant watch, perhaps for nurse. More impressively, it is still fitted with its original solid gold open link bracelet.

French School Eartly 20th Century Portrait of a young man Signed with the monogram HJ lower right Oil on cardboard panel 38 x 29 cm On the back the inscription "Portrait de Constant ...

Note, for example, the little view of the Luxembourg Gardens entitled Les Bonnes, in which the nurses with their formidable Parisienne caps, and the children with their frail French ...

Shortly afterwards he left for the front, where he cared for the wounded as a nurse until 1919. After the war, he married fellow artist Maria Piron and they would remain inseparable ...

Shortly afterwards he left for the front, where he cared for the wounded as a nurse until 1919. After the war, he married fellow artist Maria Piron and they would remain inseparable ...

Shows the queen wearing the Imperial Crown sitting in the corner of a shoe surrounded by children and a nurse holding Prince Maurice of Battenberg. Signed "A Rackham" lowe...

Collyer enrolled as a nurse at the outbreak of WW1 working at the Allied Hospital in Boulogne until 1915.

Set during World War 1, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army, and his love ...

To address the lack of wet nurses who were highly sought-after between the 18th and 19th centuries, artificial feeding became popular.

Elena was the first Inspector of the Voluntary Nurses for the Italian Red Cross from 1911 until 1921.

In 1952, Wigg married his mother's nurse, but this was disastrous for his artistic career.

Mead's stay at Westminster was brief before having to return home to nurse her father. After his death Mead studied under Auguste Joseph Delécluse in Paris, where a pastel portrait w...

Later that year the Hesse court and her own family became ill with diphtheria and she nursed them; her youngest daughter Marie died however and Alice again knew the pain of losing a ...

The needed support both financially, through the purchase of war bonds and rationing, and emotionally, through volunteer service (men for the military, women for the nurse corps), di...

He was deeply affected by the First World War and the death of his wife in 1920 following an illness contracted at the hospital in Algiers where she was a nurse. Inconsolable, he goe...

After his wife's death Harris moved with his son and a nurse to Belle Vue House, Newlyn where Elizabeth and her mother also lodged.

He was deeply affected by the First World War and the death of his wife in 1920 following an illness contracted at the hospital in Algiers where she was a nurse. Inconsolable, he goe...

Remaining very close to Sickert, she taught with him at his Rowlandson House school in London and then followed him to Dieppe where she nursed him through periods of ill health. She ...

In addition to her artistic career, she volunteered as a nurse during the two World Wars, which earned her the title of Knight of the Legion of Honor on December 9, 1951 by the Frenc...

He was deeply affected by the First World War and the death of his wife in 1920 following an illness contracted at the hospital in Algiers where she was a nurse. Inconsolable, he goe...

The ancient family of Legh stand high amongst the distinguished lines of Englishmen anciently established in Cheshire which has been called by one old writer “the mother and nurse of...

The First World War plunges him, as a nurse, closer to the horror. He will come out broken and definitively won over to theses and pacifist movements to which he will always have his...

She falls in love with a humble Saracen soldier, Medoro, whom she nurses back to health, and she returns with him to her far-off Asian kingdom – an affair that drives the heartbroken...

In September of 1940 he employed a temporary stand-in for his regular night nurse. The agency sent him a young, twenty-one year old student nurse: Monique Bourgeois.

In September of 1940 he employed a temporary stand-in for his regular night nurse. The agency sent him a young, twenty-one year old student nurse: Monique Bourgeois.