Skip to main content

Antique Nurses

to
25
153
92
120
120
106
44
31
31
30
21
16
15
12
11
8
6
5
4
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
8
6
4
3
3
Sort By
English Antique Landscape Painting of Countryside by Edward Charles Williams
English Antique Landscape Painting of Countryside by Edward Charles Williams

English Antique Landscape Painting of Countryside by Edward Charles Williams

Located in Shippensburg, PA

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...

Category

19th Century British Romantic Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Paint

A Farewell to Arms, Signed by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, Later Printing
A Farewell to Arms, Signed by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, Later Printing

A Farewell to Arms, Signed by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, Later Printing

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

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.

Category

1920s Antique Nurses

Materials

Paper

Sailor's Woolwork Woolie of The Hospital Ship, HMHS Plassy
Sailor's Woolwork Woolie of The Hospital Ship, HMHS Plassy

Sailor's Woolwork Woolie of The Hospital Ship, HMHS Plassy

Located in Downingtown, PA

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...

Category

Early 20th Century English Edwardian Antique Nurses

Materials

Wool

Exceptional 19th Century Oak Country House / Castle Dining Table by Strahan
Exceptional 19th Century Oak Country House / Castle Dining Table by Strahan

Exceptional 19th Century Oak Country House / Castle Dining Table by Strahan

By Strahan of Dublin

Located in Dublin, IE

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.  

Category

19th Century Irish Antique Nurses

Materials

Oak

"The Navy is Calling ENLIST NOW" Vintage WWI Poster, circa 1918

"The Navy is Calling ENLIST NOW" Vintage WWI Poster, circa 1918

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

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...

Category

1910s Antique Nurses

Tiffany & Co. Copper Building Plaque for the Riverside General Hospital
Tiffany & Co. Copper Building Plaque for the Riverside General Hospital

Tiffany & Co. Copper Building Plaque for the Riverside General Hospital

By Tiffany & Co.

Located in Houston, TX

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...

Category

1920s American American Colonial Antique Nurses

Materials

Copper

E-E-E-YAH-YIP World War I U.S. Marines Recruitment Poster
E-E-E-YAH-YIP World War I U.S. Marines Recruitment Poster

E-E-E-YAH-YIP World War I U.S. Marines Recruitment Poster

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

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...

Category

Early 20th Century American Antique Nurses

19th Century French Oil on Canvas Monk Painting Signed Jose Frappa
19th Century French Oil on Canvas Monk Painting Signed Jose Frappa

19th Century French Oil on Canvas Monk Painting Signed Jose Frappa

By José Frappa

Located in Dallas, TX

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.

Category

Late 19th Century French Antique Nurses

Materials

Abalone, Canvas, Giltwood

French Post Impressionist Landscape, The River Bank
French Post Impressionist Landscape, The River Bank

French Post Impressionist Landscape, The River Bank

By Charles Picart le Doux

Located in Cotignac, FR

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.

Category

Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Oil

Civil War Apron, Made In Cambridge, OH by Laura, Hynes, ca 1861
Civil War Apron, Made In Cambridge, OH by Laura, Hynes, ca 1861

Civil War Apron, Made In Cambridge, OH by Laura, Hynes, ca 1861

Located in York County, PA

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

Category

1860s American Antique Nurses

Materials

Cotton

Pair of Italian Rococo Pastels on Silk Portraits by Joseph De Saint Michel, 1769
Pair of Italian Rococo Pastels on Silk Portraits by Joseph De Saint Michel, 1769

Pair of Italian Rococo Pastels on Silk Portraits by Joseph De Saint Michel, 1769

By Joseph de Saint-Michel

Located in Milano, IT

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...

Category

1760s Italian Rococo Antique Nurses

Materials

Silk, Wood

Elegant Women - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Interior Edmond Francois Aman-Jean
Elegant Women - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Interior Edmond Francois Aman-Jean

Elegant Women - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Interior Edmond Francois Aman-Jean

By Edmond Aman-Jean

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

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...

Category

1910s Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jeune Fille avec Perroquet
Jeune Fille avec Perroquet

Jeune Fille avec Perroquet

By Edmond Aman-Jean

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

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...

Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Femme a la toilette - Symbolist Oil, Figures in Interior by Edmond Aman-Jean
Femme a la toilette - Symbolist Oil, Figures in Interior by Edmond Aman-Jean

Femme a la toilette - Symbolist Oil, Figures in Interior by Edmond Aman-Jean

By Edmond Aman-Jean

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

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...

Category

1910s Symbolist Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Jean Claude Pellegrini (1787-1854)
Portrait of Jean Claude Pellegrini (1787-1854)

Portrait of Jean Claude Pellegrini (1787-1854)

Located in Paris, IDF

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...

Category

Early 19th Century French School Antique Nurses

Materials

Oil

“A French Nurse”
“A French Nurse”

“A French Nurse”

By Pierre Edouard Frere

Located in Southampton, NY

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

Category

1870s Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Oil, Board

Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Nurses Belt Buckle, Chester 1902
Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Nurses Belt Buckle, Chester 1902

Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Nurses Belt Buckle, Chester 1902

Located in Rotterdam, NL

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.

Category

Early 20th Century British Edwardian Antique Nurses

Materials

Sterling Silver

Signed Bergmann Cat Nurse Delivering Newborn Kitten Rare Austrian Vienna Bronze
Signed Bergmann Cat Nurse Delivering Newborn Kitten Rare Austrian Vienna Bronze

Signed Bergmann Cat Nurse Delivering Newborn Kitten Rare Austrian Vienna Bronze

Located in New York, NY

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.

Category

Early 20th Century Austrian Gilded Age Antique Nurses

Materials

Bronze

“California Coastal Sunset”
“California Coastal Sunset”

“California Coastal Sunset”

By Alexander Dzigurski

Located in Southampton, NY

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...

Category

1660s Post-Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Repoussé Sterling Silver Belt Buckle of Baroque Dolphins, by William Kerr c1890
Repoussé Sterling Silver Belt Buckle of Baroque Dolphins, by William Kerr c1890

Repoussé Sterling Silver Belt Buckle of Baroque Dolphins, by William Kerr c1890

Located in valatie, NY

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.

Category

Late 19th Century American Antique Nurses

Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Belt Buckle England c1897
Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Belt Buckle England c1897

Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Belt Buckle England c1897

Located in Montreal, QC

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...

Category

Late 19th Century British Art Nouveau Antique Nurses

Isamu Noguchi Hawkeye Measured Timer
Isamu Noguchi Hawkeye Measured Timer

Isamu Noguchi Hawkeye Measured Timer

By Isamu Noguchi

Located in Cincinnati, OH

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...

Category

Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Nurses

Materials

Bakelite

Chinese Whitish Celadon Carved Jade Group of Ram with Two Boys
Chinese Whitish Celadon Carved Jade Group of Ram with Two Boys

Chinese Whitish Celadon Carved Jade Group of Ram with Two Boys

Located in New York, NY

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 ...

Category

19th Century Chinese Antique Nurses

Materials

Jade

Hotel Turtle Bell by BOJ Eibar Head and Tail Ring When Pressed
Hotel Turtle Bell by BOJ Eibar Head and Tail Ring When Pressed

Hotel Turtle Bell by BOJ Eibar Head and Tail Ring When Pressed

By Boj Eiber

Located in Los Angeles, CA

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, ...

Category

Early 20th Century Art Deco Antique Nurses

Materials

Bronze, Stainless Steel

Victorian Ladies' Pressed Seaweed Pictures Set of Six, circa 1885
Victorian Ladies' Pressed Seaweed Pictures Set of Six, circa 1885

Victorian Ladies' Pressed Seaweed Pictures Set of Six, circa 1885

Located in Downingtown, PA

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...

Category

Late 19th Century Great Britain (UK) Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

Seagrass, Paper

Victorian Ladies' Pressed Seaweed Pictures, circa 1885
Victorian Ladies' Pressed Seaweed Pictures, circa 1885

Victorian Ladies' Pressed Seaweed Pictures, circa 1885

Located in Downingtown, PA

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...

Category

Late 19th Century Great Britain (UK) Victorian Antique Nurses

World War I Red Cross Propaganda Poster by James Montgomery Flagg

World War I Red Cross Propaganda Poster by James Montgomery Flagg

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

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.

Category

Early 20th Century American Antique Nurses

Antique English Carved Oak Corner Wall Cabinet Oxford Latin Coat of Arms British
Antique English Carved Oak Corner Wall Cabinet Oxford Latin Coat of Arms British

Antique English Carved Oak Corner Wall Cabinet Oxford Latin Coat of Arms British

Located in Shreveport, LA

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 “...

Category

1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Nurses

Materials

Oak

Hamilton 14Kt. Gold Cushion Shaped Watch with Original Dial & Bracelet 1925
Hamilton 14Kt. Gold Cushion Shaped Watch with Original Dial & Bracelet 1925

Hamilton 14Kt. Gold Cushion Shaped Watch with Original Dial & Bracelet 1925

By Hamilton

Located in Long Beach, CA

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.

Category

1920s American Art Deco Antique Nurses

French school early 20th century, Portrait of a young man, oil painting
French school early 20th century, Portrait of a young man, oil painting

French school early 20th century, Portrait of a young man, oil painting

Located in Paris, FR

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 ...

Category

1910s Post-Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Oil

Nursemaids: les bonnes de Luxembourg.
Nursemaids: les bonnes de Luxembourg.

Nursemaids: les bonnes de Luxembourg.

By James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Located in Plano, TX

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 ...

Category

19th Century American Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Lithograph

Impressionist painting "Paysage au Moulin" - Landscape Mill
Impressionist painting "Paysage au Moulin" - Landscape Mill

Impressionist painting "Paysage au Moulin" - Landscape Mill

Located in Aartselaar, BE

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 ...

Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Board

Impressionist painting "Paysage au Moulin" - Landscape Mill
Impressionist painting "Paysage au Moulin" - Landscape Mill

Impressionist painting "Paysage au Moulin" - Landscape Mill

Located in Aartselaar, BE

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 ...

Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Glass, Oil Pastel

Queen Victoria as The Lady in the Shoe
Queen Victoria as The Lady in the Shoe

Queen Victoria as The Lady in the Shoe

By Arthur Rackham

Located in Soquel, CA

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...

Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

India Ink, Paper

19th Century sporting horse portrait oil painting
19th Century sporting horse portrait oil painting

19th Century sporting horse portrait oil painting

By Margaret Collyer

Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire

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

Category

19th Century Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, circa 1929
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, circa 1929

Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, circa 1929

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

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 ...

Category

1920s Antique Nurses

Collection of Seven Rare 18th Century Pewter Baby Nursing Bottles
Collection of Seven Rare 18th Century Pewter Baby Nursing Bottles

Collection of Seven Rare 18th Century Pewter Baby Nursing Bottles

Located in Haarlem, NL

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

Category

Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Nurses

Materials

Pewter, Copper

20th Century Italian Royal Silver Photo Frame, Musy, circa 1900
20th Century Italian Royal Silver Photo Frame, Musy, circa 1900

20th Century Italian Royal Silver Photo Frame, Musy, circa 1900

By Musy Gioielli

Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent

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

Category

Early 20th Century Italian Antique Nurses

Materials

Silver

Long Life & Happiness.Queen Victoria's Daughter, Princess Alice in 1860. Original
Long Life & Happiness.Queen Victoria's Daughter, Princess Alice in 1860. Original

Long Life & Happiness.Queen Victoria's Daughter, Princess Alice in 1860. Original

By HRH Princess Alice Maud Mary Hanover

Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset

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 ...

Category

Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Cardboard, Pencil

"The Spirit of 1776, Buy Liberty Loans" Vintage WWI Poster, circa 1917
"The Spirit of 1776, Buy Liberty Loans" Vintage WWI Poster, circa 1917

"The Spirit of 1776, Buy Liberty Loans" Vintage WWI Poster, circa 1917

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

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...

Category

1910s American Antique Nurses

Materials

Paper

Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938) Study of a woman, original drawing
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938) Study of a woman, original drawing

Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938) Study of a woman, original drawing

By Georges Antoine Rochegrosse

Located in Paris, FR

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...

Category

1890s Symbolist Antique Nurses

Materials

Gouache, Carbon Pencil

G A  Rochegrosse (1859-1938) A naked woman, Study for Salammbo or Le Tepidarium
G A  Rochegrosse (1859-1938) A naked woman, Study for Salammbo or Le Tepidarium

G A Rochegrosse (1859-1938) A naked woman, Study for Salammbo or Le Tepidarium

By Georges Antoine Rochegrosse

Located in Paris, FR

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...

Category

1890s Symbolist Antique Nurses

Materials

Charcoal

Portrait of Gentleman in Armour by Table & Helmut c.1685 Aristocratic Provenance
Portrait of Gentleman in Armour by Table & Helmut c.1685 Aristocratic Provenance

Portrait of Gentleman in Armour by Table & Helmut c.1685 Aristocratic Provenance

By Johann Kerseboom

Located in London, GB

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...

Category

17th Century Old Masters Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Young Red-haired Woman
Young Red-haired Woman

Young Red-haired Woman

By Charles Picart le Doux

Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR

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...

Category

1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Henri Matisse - The Saint Michel Bridge - Original Etching
Henri Matisse - The Saint Michel Bridge - Original Etching

Henri Matisse - The Saint Michel Bridge - Original Etching

By Henri Matisse

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

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.

Category

1920s Modern Antique Nurses

Materials

Etching

Vegetables
Vegetables

Vegetables

By (after) Henri Matisse

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

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.

Category

1920s Modern Antique Nurses

Materials

Lithograph

  • 1
Get Updated with New Arrivals
Save "Antique Nurses", and we’ll notify you when there are new listings in this category.

Antique Nurses For Sale on 1stDibs

An assortment of antique nurses is available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of metal, paper and wood, all antique nurses available were constructed with great care. Antique nurses have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Victorian, Art Deco and industrial antique nurses are consistently popular styles. Antique nurses have been a part of the life’s work for many furniture makers, but those produced by Ernest Hemingway, Musy Gioielli and Isamu Noguchi are consistently popular.

How Much are Antique Nurses?

Prices for antique nurses can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, antique nurses begin at $85 and can go as high as $294,283, while the average can fetch as much as $2,767.