First World War

The volcanic outcrop was the site of an Iron Age hill fort, and had also been used as a high-viewpoint during the First World War. Piper started out as a mostly abstract artist, but...

Wald was born into a Rabbinical family in Cluj in Hungary before the outbreak of the First World War, studied sculpture in Budapest, Vienna, Berlin and London before emigrating to So...

A good-looking piece, its hand carved from top to bottom with Jacobean floral detailing, the top as you can see commemorates the first world war, it is honestly the most poignant lit...

From 1913 he exhibited his paintings at the Royal Academy, a favourite theme being circus performers. During the First World War he worked with the Admiralty developing dazzle camou...

He remodelled the south front to designs by William Burn, which were swept away in the 1930s by Robert Tritton. During the First World War, an airship was stationed at Godmersham Par...

Dimensions: H 79cm W 63cm D 22cm Origin: English Date: Circa 1930 Item Number: 902227 Betty Joel was one of London's leading furniture retailers and designers in the 192...

From this point on his prints were published in London and Glasgow, and during the First World War McBey was appointed official war artist to the Palestine Expeditionary Force.

Frederic Japy (1749-1812) was apprenticed in Montbeliard to his clockmaker uncle, and returned to his home town of Beaucort, setting up as a clockmaker, and an organiser of local clo...

He served in the Tank Corps in the First World War and then became a professional artist, mainly producing maritime and architectural scenes.

At that point he began doing paintings of the Montmartre landscape, anticipating the themes that Utrillo would eventually depict in his work. After the First World War, his vues of P...

The German painter, graphic designer and sculptor Fritz Zalisz, considered one of the most important representatives of German expressionism, studied at the Leipzig Academy with Otto...

He sadly died during the First World War at the age of 33, fighting on the Front in a Territorial Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment.

The Fulwell Wall Sconce draws its silhouette directly from the First World War Acoustic Mirror standing at Fulwell, Sunderland, one of only six remaining brutalist sound dishes in En...

Chairs of this type came out of Parisian cabinet workshops in the decade after the First World War, when Louis XVI proportions were being pared back towards early Art Deco.

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

The Peace dollar was authorised to mark the end of the First World War. The obverse shows Liberty in a radiate crown by Anthony de Francisci, the reverse a bald eagle at rest on a ro...

Morgan's dollar ran from 1878 to 1904 and was then revived for a single year in 1921 under the Pittman Act, which required the Treasury to replace silver dollars melted during the Fi...

Adler was born in Vienna and began his artistic career in the lithography trade before receiving formal training at the Graphic Research Lab and the Vienna Academy. During the First ...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

At the top, the large inscription reads “The Great European War,” the expression commonly used in Russia during World War I before the conflict became universally known as the First ...

The wing motif became particularly fashionable during the Art Deco period. Following the First World War, aviation captured the public imagination with speed, flight and modernity be...

Issued in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War, this original British recruitment poster by William Henry Caffyn is a striking example of the patriotic propaganda used to enco...

René Paris also produced a stone sculpture, "The Dead Lion" in 1922, installed for the War Memorial of the 130th Division, the location of which marks the extreme limit of the German...

It is a rare poster created for the Union of France to Promote the expansion of the morale and materials of France after the First World War. It encourages the viewer to hold to thei...

Edward Thomas (1878–1917) is regarded as one of the finest English poets of the First World War, though the majority of his poetry was written only in the final years of his life.

An unusual color palette of bright orange and blue is used to depict the sun setting on a mosque along the sea, and a man rests in the arches of a nearby monument. Before the First ...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

Also active in publishing, he contributed to numerous books and published a moving account of his time at the front during the First World War. From the 1930s onwards, under the infl...

This fascinating original poster, titled “L’Europe Nouvelle”, presents a vivid political map of Europe and the world as reshaped by the Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919 at the co...

Biography: Percy John Delf Smith RDI (March 1882 – 30 October 1948) was a British artist who worked in engraving, painting, lettering, calligraphy and book design. During the First ...

There's no need to impose a wartime narrative upon the scene, but the idea of a peaceful day inevitably carried a particular resonance in Europe during the First World War. Signed i...

A bustling North African casbah is shown here, with the lively colors of the medina guiding our eye to the harbor and ship beyond. Before the First World War, the Hamburg-America Li...

He is known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier".

Petersburg elite and an important patron of the arts, who promoted Russian visual and musical art abroad, particularly in Paris. During the First World War, Nijinsky was placed under...

About the artist: Pogatschnig, who had attended the Italian-language lyceum in Trieste, fled to Italy in 1914 and served in the Italian army during the First World War as a volunteer...

More sober than the imaginative Amsterdam School and - as opinions may differ - to some more elegant and luxurious than De Stijl, this style is also called Dutch Art Deco. After the ...

Glittering jewels were a joy following austerity measures during the First World War. These stud earrings are contemporary, but made faithfully in the Art Deco style.

"Zero" Hans Schleger (1898 - 1976) Wait till it stops before getting on or off a bus or tram Original vintage poster 76 x 49 cm Hans Schleger was born in Germany. After the First Wo...

The demand for coal began to decline after the First World War, however, and the collieries on the Lancashire Coalfield struggled to remain economically viable in an increasingly com...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

These designs became incredibly popular and helped boost the company's success after the first world war. This beautiful vase, particularly with its fanciful bird-like creatures floa...

Silkscreened on teal blue felt we find Snoopy who, equipped with a pilot's helmet, goggles and a scarf, is ready to climb aboard his Sopwith Camel fighter biplane (actually his dogho...

He went on to serve in the army during the First World War and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1919.

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

She reigned with her husband, King George V, through a period of great change for the country and served as a dedicated advisor to George through his ill health, the First World War ...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were M...