The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a male figure dressed in a female Roman warrior outfit. The figure is holding the Kaiser in a headlock and a spear in the other hand which is dripping with blood.
Accompanied by the text 'The Dangerous Year (in the fourth year of marriage, ' And do you still love me as you did before we married?') the figures represent Bellona the Roman goddess of war and the German ruler Kaiser Wilhelm II. As a figurative works it is a commentary on the hold the war has over the German ruler and the influence it is having over his ability to govern.
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) was a painter, draughtsman, illustrator, cartoonist, printmaker, writer and sculptor. He joined the Sydney 'Bulletin' magazine as a staff artist, 1901-09, 1910-23 and 1932-58. During the First World War he produced jingoistic cartoons and pro-conscription posters. Published in the Sydney 'Bulletin' magazine on 16 August 1917, this illustration is part of the series of war cartoons Norman Lindsay generated during the First World War.
Depicts the Kaiser sitting hunched over several money bags full of skulls at a table, around on the floor and in the safe behind him. Produced towards the end of the war the cartoon is a critique of
Depicts the Kaiser manipulating an over sized puppet holding a sword. Germania looks on with disapproval holding a newspaper with the headline 'American troops for Europe', below 'Brazil on the verge.
An Australian First World War recruitment poster, depicting two Australian soldiers, hard pressed by a larger German force, one on the ground appealing for help. Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) was a paint
The full title reads 'God bless dear Daddy who is fighting the Hun and send him Help'. The third of the series of six posters by Lindsay constituting the last nation-wide Australian recruiting campaig
The full title reads 'God bless dear Daddy who is fighting the Hun and send him Help'. The third of the series of six posters by Lindsay constituting the last nation-wide Australian recruiting campaig
Illustration depicting the burning bodies of the German dead being offered by the Kaiser, who stands warming himself at the flames, to the German War-God. The War-God stands enormous in the background
