The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts an image of the figure of Death, a skeleton, wearing a cloak, riding a dark horse. The figure of Death bears a German standard (flag with Imperial eagle on it) and rides up an embankment before a tide of German soldiers led by their officers. The German soldiers and the figure of Death move across the landscape, under a stormy sky. The work comments on the carnage of German soldiers at the battle of Verdun, during the First World War. The Germans commenced the year 1916 by launching a massive offensive, attacking the French salient around Verdun, 200 kilometres east of Paris. After a period of six months the French and German casualties exceeded half a million. Claude Allin Shepperson (1867-1921) was an illustrator, printmaker, painter and lithographer. Initially a law student, he studied art in London and Paris during the 1890s. He was a regular contributor to 'Punch' magazine (1905-21), illustrated books and often depicted landscapes and figure subjects. He also served as a war artist, near the age of 50, during the First World War.
Depicts a thousand small German soldiers marching in the foreground, while above them rises the giant figure of a German officer. He shovels the soldiers into the barrel of gun, which is already gorge
View of a badly war-damaged hilly landscape after the battle of Verdun in 1916, with smashed and burnt trees and a pathway in the foreground. The Germans commenced the year 1916 by launching a massive
Dead German soldiers lying in front of the French ramparts at Verdun in France during the First World War. A French soldier with his rifle is looking over the parapet from where he has been shooting
The ramparts at the Battle of Verdun c. 1916 during the First World War. The French soldier standing upright against the ramparts with his arms outstretched and the light directed onto his chest, is a
Depicts a dead German soldier, lying face down, on the ground, next to a mile post on which is inscribed 'Verdun 11 kil'. Behind this German soldier are piles of bodies of other dead soldiers. The Ge
A group of French soldiers in a trench at Carnoy on the Somme, France, during the First World War. All are rugged up wearing their greatcoats against the bitter cold. In the margin lower right the art
