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WORLD WAR I, 1914-1918

WWI1

"Just Imagine how they,ll Greet Me!" The Leave Train-Cheery British Soldiers Bound for "Blighty"

"I'll seee my sweetheart, Flo, and friends I used to know": A happy crowd of British Soldiers in a French train, homeward bound from the front"

Original gravure drawn for the Illustrated London News drawn by Samuel Begg (fl 1886-1916) from a sketch by an eye-witness.
Begg was a prolific illustrator and sculptor preffering military subjects. Technically exact, his work was at times photographic and characteized by heavy body colour.
Published The London Illustrated News, London, 1916
Size of image = 51cm x 30.5cm
Condition = fold in centre
Price=AUD$65

WWI2

In Action Against the Enemy in the Air: Fighting Raiders in a Village behind the Front

"In a war-zone which has seen as many as nineteen air-fights in a day! British anti-aircraft quick-fires on armoured cars shelling taubes

Original gravure drawn for the Illustrated London News drawn by A.C.Michael(fl 1903-1916), from a sketch by an Officer present in the actions in 1915.
Michael was a painter and etcher who worked from his studio in Bedford Park, London. His chalky, realistic style lent itself admirably to action scenes from the front, these being popular withthe public during Word War One. Note the aircrft in the distance, the shells loosely balanced on the armoured car, and the French villagers attempting to plough a field with spooked horses in the centre of the composition.
Published The London Illustrated News, London, 1916
Size of image = 51cm x 29cm
Condition = fold in centre
Price=AUD$65

WWI3

"The Village of Rancourt also Fell into our Power"

"French and German Soldiers in a Fierce Hand-to-Hand Encounter"

Original gravure drawn for the Illustrated London News drawn by L.Jonas, and copyrighted in the United States and Canada.
Published The London Illustrated News, London, 1916
Size of image = 48.5cm x 33cm
Condition = fold in centre some fatigue around the far edge (does not impact on the image)
Price=AUD$55

World War One, Great War, German, soldiers, Canadian, original gravure,
1917, Richard Caton Woodville, Passchendaele, france

WWI4

"By Hindenburg's Orders, 'To be Held at all Costs': Passchendaele Ridge Stormed by Canadians"

"An Important Victory gaiedunder great difficulties: the Canadans'splendid exploit on Passchendaele Ridge- Some firing into and bombing a 'Pill-box'"

Original gravure drawn for the Illustrated London News drawn by Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927), Woodville was a famous military artist ad illustrator, rought up in St. Petersburg, Hhe lived in Paris before settling in Lonodn in 1875.He was a Special Artist for the Illustrated London News covering the Turkish War (1878), Egyptian War (1882), and events in Albania and the Balkans. Woodville's war drawings were accurate nad highly finished, if at times romanticised. From Material supplied by an eye-witness.
Published The London Illustrated News, London, 1917
Size of image = 50.5cm x 30.5cm
Condition = fold in centre
Price=AUD$65

World War One, Great War, Allied soldiers, Artillary, horses,original gravure,
1917, Richard Caton Woodville, Flanders, france, Western front, trenches

WWI5

"Fighting the Mud: An Unhealthy Spot in a Sea of Clay and Water in Flanders"

"Digging out an artillary horse: a halt in aan advance over one of the 'roads'on the Western Front"

Original gravure drawn for the Illustrated London News drawn by Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927), Woodville was a famous military artist ad illustrator, rought up in St. Petersburg, Hhe lived in Paris before settling in Lonodn in 1875.He was a Special Artist for the Illustrated London News covering the Turkish War (1878), Egyptian War (1882), and events in Albania and the Balkans. Woodville's war drawings were accurate nad highly finished, if at times romanticised.
Published The London Illustrated News, London, 1917
Size of image = 51cm x 30cm
Condition = fold in centre
Price=AUD$65

World War One, Great War, German, British, Surreys, soldiers, contalmaison, football, original gravure,
1917, Richard Caton Woodville, Flanders, france, Western front, trenches,

WWI6

"The Surreys Play the Game!" Kicking Footballs Towards the German Trenches Under a Hail of Shells

"On through the hail of slaughter...they drive the trickling Ball": Men of the East Surreys charging towrds the erman trenches at Contalmaison"

Original gravure drawn for the Illustrated London News drawn by Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927), Woodville was a famous military artist ad illustrator, rought up in St. Petersburg, Hhe lived in Paris before settling in Lonodn in 1875.He was a Special Artist for the Illustrated London News covering the Turkish War (1878), Egyptian War (1882), and events in Albania and the Balkans. Woodville's war drawings were accurate nad highly finished, if at time romanticised. From material supplied by an Officier Present at the Action.
Size of image = 50.5cm x 30cm
Published The London Illustrated News, London, 1916
Condition = fold in centre
Price=AUD$75

"French Soldier"

Original chromolithograph drawn for the Illustrated London News
This is a circular illustration but a liitle to large for the scanner.
Published The London Illustrated News, London, October18, 1856
Size of image = 235mm round
Condition = Excellent.
Price=AUD$55

"Parisian Promenaders

Original hand coloured Aquatint etched by Richard Brinsley PEAKE (Born 1732). He illustrated The Characteristic Costume of France at the age of 87 in 1819. Published London, vor William Fearman, January 1819.(Slight discolouration where a matboard presentation has been, small crease in bottom left hand corner.)
Size=20cmx25cm
Price=AU$195

"The 20th Middlesex (Artists) Volunteers"

Original chromolithograph after Godfrey Douglas Giles (1857-1923)
Giles was born in India in 1857 and served as a professional soldier there, and in Afganistan and Egypt. He studied in Paris and exhibited in London 1882-1904. His work was primarily as an illustrator of Horses and Military scenes as well as caricaturing.
Published London c.1885
Size of image = 16cm x 20.5cm
Condition = Excellent
Price=AUD$36

French military original lithograph by hippolyte bellange c.1850

"Officier de Grenadiers,
Infanterie de Ligne Grande tenue d'ete`"
Original finely hand coloured lithograph drawn De Villain after Hyppolyte Bellange.
Published Paris c.1850. Size of Print= 26cm x 34.5cm
Price = AUD$195

Legions Departmentales (Voltigeur) de 1816 a`1820 "

Original finely hand coloured lithograph drawn De Villain after Hyppolyte Bellange.
Published Paris c.1850. Size of Print= 26cm x 34.5cm
Price = AUD$195

"Houzards de la Meuthe 2nd Regiment "

Original finely hand coloured lithograph drawn De Villain after Hyppolyte Bellange.
(This lithograph is on the same size paper as the previous images but is a fuller illustration , hence it seems appears cropped in "jpeg form". It has the details underneath, as seen in other Bellange prints. The title has been repeated in pencil under the original as "Hufsars o fthe Meurthe")
Published Paris c.1850.
Size of Print= 26cm x 34.5cm
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"Regiment d'infanterie Colonel "

Original finely hand coloured lithograph drawn De Villain after Hyppolyte Bellange.
Published Paris c.1850.
Size of Print= 26cm x 34.5cm
Price = AUD$180

"CRIMEAN WAR, 1853-1856"

Original tri-tinted lithograph (blue, ochre, black) by Edmund Walker after William Simpson, R.I., FRGS (1823-1899).
Simpson was the first "Special Artist" to be in action.
Published Day & Son, London 25th October, 1854. The Gallery has many other lithographs from this series-The Seat of War in the East Scenes of naval, port and battle scenes etc. Published 1854-1856 **More Available on enquiry**
Condition = Good unless stated otherwise
Approx Image Size = 36 cm x 46 cm
Prices as marked

Pl.13 Crimea War 1853-1856
"SKETCH IN THE INTERIOR OF THE MAMELON VERT, LOOKING SOUTH"

Published 17th September, 1855.
Size of image= 50cm x 31cm
Condition = Excellent with light "foxing" in title area
Price = AUD$185

Pl. 25
Crimea War 1853-1856
"DITCH OF THE BASTION DU MAT"

Includes key identifying points and people of interest.
Published London, 18th January, 1856.
Size of image= 43cm x 26cm
Condition = Excellent with light "foxing" in title area
Price = AUD$165

Pl. 29
Crimea War 1853-1856
"THE NEW WORKS AT THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL ON THE RIGHT ATTACK,
from the mortar battery on the right of Gordon's Battery"

OrIncludes key identifying points and people of interest.
Published London 24th May, 1855.
Size of image= 42cm x 29cm
Condition = Excellent with light "foxing" in title area
Price = AUD$195

Pl.2
"FORTRESS OF YENIKALE, Looking towards the Sea of Azoff"

Published London 13th August, 1855.
Size of image= 44cm x 27cm
Condition = Excellent
Price = AUD$165

Pl.41
"BASTION DU MAT, FROM THE CENTRAL BASTION"

Includes key identifying points and people of interest.
Published London 20th May, 1856.
Size of image= 50cm x 31cm
Condition = light "foxing" in sky and in title area Price = AUD$165

antique prints of the crimean war, graves at the head of the Harbour of Balaklava, (Russia)

Pl.21
"GRAVES AT THE HEAD OF THE HARBOUR OF BALACLAVA"
Published London 13th March, 1855.
Size of image= 35cm x 25cm
Condition = Sprinkled with foxing in sky and in title area but not on print itself. Price = AUD$165

antique prints of the crimean war, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, (Russia)

Pl.36
"THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, Caves in he Woronzoff Road behind the 21 Gun Battery"
Published London 11th June, 1855.
Size of image= 44.5cm x 26cm
Condition = Excellent Price = AUD$165

Pl.20
"HEAD OF THE HARBOUR , SEBASTOPOL (Russia)"
Published London 20th March, 1855.
Includes key identifying points and people of interest.
Size of image= 42.5cm x 28cm
Condition = Excellent Price = AUD$165

Pl.26
"THE RUINS OF INKERMANN AND CITY OF CAVERNS"

Includes key identifying points and people of interest.
Published London 22th May, 1855.
Size of image= 50cm x 31cm
Condition = light "foxing" in title area Price = AUD$155

We have a large selection of militaria including Simpson's recording of the Crimean War, French Uniforms by after Hippolyte Bellange, European Battle scenes, Military portraits (see alsoVanity Fair) ,etc .
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