The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian First World War poster depicting a menacing German officer, arms folded, standing over the body Nurse Edith Cavell (a British nurse in executed by the Germans on suspicion of being a spy), while the ghostly figure of Justice hovers behind them, demanding the viewer deliver retribution. The officer is in dark shadow, in contrast to Cavell, who is dressed in her white nurses uniform. In the background, the silhouettes of a German firing squad are lined up, guns still poised. Virgil Reilly (1892-1974), was a cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator. His most notable creations were the 'Virgil Girls' and his comic books 'Silver Flash' and 'The Invisible Avenger'. In the 1910s he worked as a commercial artist for a motion picture advertising firm, as well as drawing propaganda and recruitment posters during the First World War. In 1920 Virgil joined 'Smith's Weekly' as a staff artist in Sydney where he remained until 1950. Reilly was also an accomplished book illustrator, providing artwork for two collections of poetry by Kenneth Slessor, 'Darlinghurst Nights' in 1933, and 'Backless Betty from Bondi' in 1938.
An unhappy prisoner of war reads a letter inside a barbed wire fence, to the right is a dream like image of a woman and child and to the left a haunting silhouette of a German soldier. The poster adve
This Australian First World War poster was created in Adelaide by government photolithographer Alfred Vaughan, using an earlier artwork by Adelaide artist Clifford Wall. The poster uses Wall's artwork
Depicts a war damaged landscape with the remains of a tank on the left near Flers on the Western Front in 1917. George Benson (1886-1960) was a painter and muralist who studied at the National Gallery
An unfinished portrait of an Australian Army Nursing Service, an unidentified nurse, wearing veil and red cape. The artist, Henry Woollcott, served as a Private at the 3rd Australian Hospital at Abbev
Depicts the cartoon published in the London 'Daily News', 26 October 1915, commenting on the execution of Edith Cavell, a British nurse accused by the Germans of being a spy. The slumped and bloodied
In 1939 to mid-1940, Marcuse was a war events illustrator for 'The Argus'. This work is likely related to the art he produced in this role. In the collection, there are several drawings that illustrat
