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After Henri Matisse - Blue Nude
After Henri Matisse - Blue Nude

After Henri Matisse - Blue Nude

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 Abstract Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Lithograph

Portrait of Lady Legh Seated Holding Flowers c.1693 English Aristocratic History
Portrait of Lady Legh Seated Holding Flowers c.1693 English Aristocratic History

Portrait of Lady Legh Seated Holding Flowers c.1693 English Aristocratic History

By Kneller Godfrey

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

Lord of the Isles
Lord of the Isles

Lord of the Isles

By Margaret Collyer

Located in London, GB

(11) After graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 1898, she set up a studio in London, painting on commission all over Britain until the outbreak of the First World War; she t...

Category

Early 1900s Realist Antique Nurses

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique Silver Nurses Fob Watch
Antique Silver Nurses Fob Watch

Antique Silver Nurses Fob Watch

Located in Carlisle, GB

This beautiful ball dial antique silver nurses fob watch is in good working order.

Category

1890s Antique Nurses

Materials

Silver

19th Century Victorian Silver Nurse's Buckle
19th Century Victorian Silver Nurse's Buckle

19th Century Victorian Silver Nurse's Buckle

Located in Umberleigh, Devon

A lovely English Victorian silver nurse's buckle with pierced and engraved decoration.

Category

1890s English Late Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

Silver

Hystorical "Nurse" earrings with sound pendants
Hystorical "Nurse" earrings with sound pendants

Hystorical "Nurse" earrings with sound pendants

Located in Sežana, SI

"Nurse" earrings with sound pendants. Made of 18K gold, beginning of the 19th century, Istro-Dalmatian area.

Category

Early 1800s European Arts and Crafts Antique Nurses

Materials

18k Gold

World War I Soldier & Red Cross Nurse
World War I Soldier & Red Cross Nurse

World War I Soldier & Red Cross Nurse

By C. Clyde Squires

Located in Minneapolis, MN

A stirring and patriotic moving World War I era original illustration featuring a Florence Nightingale-inspired Red Cross nurse tending to a doughboy soldier by noted American illust...

Category

1910s American Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Illustration Board, Oil

Antique Edwardian Gold Family Locket, 1902
Antique Edwardian Gold Family Locket, 1902

Antique Edwardian Gold Family Locket, 1902

Located in Sale, Cheshire

On the front is the engraving "22nd February 1902" and to the back "Nurse - From Christie, Faith, Philip" - presumable a gift from three grown up children to their nurse?

Category

Early 20th Century English Edwardian Antique Nurses

Materials

18k Gold

1915 Rene Lalique gold brooch
1915 Rene Lalique gold brooch

1915 Rene Lalique gold brooch

By René Lalique

Located in London, GB

An interesting gold brooch made by Rene Lalique circa 1914, engraved Journee du Poilu 1915, and made for the British nurses in the trenches attending the wounded troops.These were n...

Category

Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Nurses

Materials

14k Gold

1920's Mrs. Chase Medical Doll
1920's Mrs. Chase Medical Doll

1920's Mrs. Chase Medical Doll

Located in 3 Oaks, MI

The first production mannequin was created in 1911 , with the new improved adult size exhibited at the 1914 St.Louis Nurse's Convention. She comes with a 4 page printed text of it's...

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Early 20th Century American Antique Nurses

19th Century Mexican Folk Retablo - San Camilo
19th Century Mexican Folk Retablo - San Camilo

19th Century Mexican Folk Retablo - San Camilo

Located in San Francisco, CA

San Camilo, patron saint of the sick and nurses, is almost always depicted as he is here, ministering at the hour of death.

Category

19th Century Mexican Antique Nurses

A Superb 19th Century Mexican Folk Retablo - San Camilo de Lelis
A Superb 19th Century Mexican Folk Retablo - San Camilo de Lelis

A Superb 19th Century Mexican Folk Retablo - San Camilo de Lelis

Located in San Francisco, CA

San Camilo is the patron saint of the sick and nurses, and he is almost always depicted as he is here, ministering at the hour of death.

Category

19th Century Mexican Antique Nurses

Duchess du Barry Empire Clock
Duchess du Barry Empire Clock

Duchess du Barry Empire Clock

Located in Vancouver, BC

The infant boy, who is nursed by his mother is the later Duke of Bordeaux.

Category

19th Century French First Empire Antique Nurses

Materials

Enamel, Brass, Steel, Bronze

Etruscan votive head
Etruscan votive head

Etruscan votive head

Located in EL CAMPELLO, ES

Vérité (1986) In antiquity, the cult of a mother goddess and divine nurse (or kourotrophos) was prevalent throughout the Mediterranean, from Asia Minor to Sicily and from southern R...

Category

15th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Nurses

Materials

Pottery

Etruscan anatomical votive model of a foot
Etruscan anatomical votive model of a foot

Etruscan anatomical votive model of a foot

Located in EL CAMPELLO, ES

In antiquity, the cult of a mother goddess and divine nurse (or kourotrophos) was prevalent throughout the Mediterranean, from Asia Minor to Sicily and from southern Russia to North ...

Category

15th Century and Earlier Italian Prehistoric Antique Nurses

Materials

Pottery

Italian Late 19th Century Carrara Marble Hebe Sculpture
Italian Late 19th Century Carrara Marble Hebe Sculpture

Italian Late 19th Century Carrara Marble Hebe Sculpture

Located in Saint Ouen, FR

It was she who harnessed chariot of Hera (Iliad V, 722), and also tells Homer in the Iliad (V, 905) she bathes and dresses her brother Ares and she nursed him with ambrosia when he w...

Category

Late 19th Century Italian Antique Nurses

Materials

Carrara Marble

Etruscan anatomical votive model of a foot
Etruscan anatomical votive model of a foot

Etruscan anatomical votive model of a foot

Located in EL CAMPELLO, ES

In antiquity, the cult of a mother goddess and divine nurse (or kourotrophos) was prevalent throughout the Mediterranean, from Asia Minor to Sicily and from southern Russia to North ...

Category

15th Century and Earlier Italian Prehistoric Antique Nurses

Materials

Pottery

Antique Religious Statue Saint Sebastian Mid 19th Century Portugal Glass Eyes
Antique Religious Statue Saint Sebastian Mid 19th Century Portugal Glass Eyes

Antique Religious Statue Saint Sebastian Mid 19th Century Portugal Glass Eyes

Located in London, GB

Castulus went to recover his body, she found he was still alive and nursed him back to health. Soon after, Sebastian intercepted the Emperor, denounced him for his cruelty to Christi...

Category

Early 19th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Nurses

Materials

Wood

Strasse mit Fahrzeugen und Passanten
Strasse mit Fahrzeugen und Passanten

Strasse mit Fahrzeugen und Passanten

By Ludwig Meidner

Located in Eltville, DE

Disappointed at the failure of the Revolution, the artist retired to nurse his disillusionment in private, abandoning Expressionism, which by then was so popular that its commercial ...

Category

1920s Expressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Lithograph

Children's portrait
Children's portrait

Children's portrait

By Ludwig Meidner

Located in Eltville, DE

Disappointed at the failure of the Revolution, the artist retired to nurse his disillusionment in private, abandoning Expressionism, which by then was so popular that its commercial ...

Category

1920s Expressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Charcoal

The Farm Pond A 19th Century English Landscape with Cattle
The Farm Pond A 19th Century English Landscape with Cattle

The Farm Pond A 19th Century English Landscape with Cattle

By Edward Charles Williams

Located in Lincoln, GB

Mary Ann died in 1857 in London, and his only child Alice Williams was born shortly afterwards to Sarah Susannah Horley, who had been Mary Ann's nurse – Edward and Sarah did not marr...

Category

Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

Oil

Victorian Antique Gold Diamonds Hard Stone God Dionysus Cameo Brooch
Victorian Antique Gold Diamonds Hard Stone God Dionysus Cameo Brooch

Victorian Antique Gold Diamonds Hard Stone God Dionysus Cameo Brooch

Located in London, GB

Zeus, to save Dionysus, took to the end the pregnancy of his sons sewing him in a thigh of his then he brought him to Nysa where the Nymphs fed him with honey (the wet nurses Nymphs ...

Category

19th Century French Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

Agate, Diamond, Gold, 18k Gold

2 Large Framed Edwardian Architects Site Plan Drawings for Barnsley Hall Asylum
2 Large Framed Edwardian Architects Site Plan Drawings for Barnsley Hall Asylum

2 Large Framed Edwardian Architects Site Plan Drawings for Barnsley Hall Asylum

Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire

The Engineering Department, Water Tower and Boiler House were located to the west, alongside the Male wards, with Laundry, Sewing Room and Nurses Block to the East. The Buildings wer...

Category

Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Nurses

Materials

Parchment Paper

Original WWI Red Cross Poster by Alonzo Foringer, 1918
Original WWI Red Cross Poster by Alonzo Foringer, 1918

Original WWI Red Cross Poster by Alonzo Foringer, 1918

Located in Houston, TX

Featuring a Red Cross nurse holding an injured soldier, the poster by Alonzo E.

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Early 20th Century American Antique Nurses

Red Cross Roll Call
Red Cross Roll Call

Red Cross Roll Call

Located in Minneapolis, MN

An angelically depicted nurse is shown holding the banner of the red cross, which reminds viewers of their work visiting the injured, helping the disabled, and providing assistance i...

Category

1920s Art Nouveau Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Medical, "Gregory's Practice of Physic", 2 Leather Vols., Philadelphia, 1829
Medical, "Gregory's Practice of Physic", 2 Leather Vols., Philadelphia, 1829

Medical, "Gregory's Practice of Physic", 2 Leather Vols., Philadelphia, 1829

By George Gregory

Located in Quechee, VT

These volumes are the classic Medical School research tools, and make a terrific gift for a medical student, and intern, a nurse, or a practicing physician or medical historian.

Category

1820s American Federal Antique Nurses

Materials

Leather, Paper

Early 20thc Human Skull for Odontology and Medical Study from Guy's Hospital
Early 20thc Human Skull for Odontology and Medical Study from Guy's Hospital

Early 20thc Human Skull for Odontology and Medical Study from Guy's Hospital

Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire

This skull was probably handled by dental surgeons, as well as dental nurses, dental hygienists, dental therapists, dental technicians and medical photographers; all of which are equ...

Category

Late 19th Century English Antique Nurses

Materials

Bone

1735 Johan Homann Hand Colored Scandinavian Map Extremely Rare
1735 Johan Homann Hand Colored Scandinavian Map Extremely Rare

1735 Johan Homann Hand Colored Scandinavian Map Extremely Rare

By Johann Baptist Homann

Located in Drottningholm, SE

As a young man Homann studied in a Jesuit school and nursed ambitions of becoming a Dominican priest before converting to Protestantism in 1687.

Category

1730s German Antique Nurses

The Infant Shakspeare
The Infant Shakspeare

The Infant Shakspeare

By George Romney

Located in New York, NY

Four years later these two artists again collaborated for the important Shakespeare engravings, Shakespeare Nursed by Tragedy and Comedy and The Infant Shakespeare Attended by Nature...

Category

18th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Antique Nurses

Materials

Engraving

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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.