The Battle of Britain

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  • La Grande Guerre [The Great War] La Grande Guerre [The Great War]

    (art) Made by: Benito, Edouard-Garcia (artist) 1915

    image: The Allied fleet at sea. Six vessels move across the composition from left to right. In the foreground a senior British Naval officer (in profile) peers through a telescope held in his right hand. Behind him the head and shoulders of an Able...

  • La Complainte du Poilu [The Poliu's Lament] La Complainte du Poilu [The Poliu's Lament]

    (art) Made by: Arnoux, Guy (artist) 1916

    image: A series of 9 humorous images of a poilu's life in the trenches and in battle culminating in a victory parade. All roughly square format, each with an accompanying rhyming text in dog-Latin

  • Edouard, Prince de Galles Visitant un Observatoire d'Artillerie Francaise [Edward, Prince of Wales, Visits a French Artillery Observation Post] Edouard, Prince de Galles Visitant un Observatoire d'Artillerie Francaise [Edward, Prince of Wales, Visits a French Artillery Observation Post]

    (art) Made by: Arnoux, Guy (artist) 1915

    image: Edward, Prince of Wales (centre left) wearing full British military uniform and a unbuttoned 'British Warm' overcoat. In his left hand he carries a swagger stick; behind him stands his ADC (centre profile) who holds a similar cane in his right...

  • La Grande Guerre - Morts au Champ d'Honneur La Grande Guerre - Morts au Champ d'Honneur

    (art) Made by: Benito, Edouard-Garcia 1915

    image: A centrally positioned Marianne wearing red Phrygian cap and a two-toned blue dress, sunburst behind her head, holds with extended arms the tricolour and laurel branches behind two French heroes. To the left of the viewer La Tour d'Auvergne (...

  • Pour la Belle Terre de France, c.1918 [For the Beautiful Realm of France, c.1918] Pour la Belle Terre de France, c.1918 [For the Beautiful Realm of France, c.1918]

    (art) Made by: Benito, Edouard-Garcia (artist) 1918

    image: A pastoral scene. In the foreground of the composition and to the right an American soldier, shirtsleeves rolled to the elbows and holding a sickle in his right hand, helps French peasants with the harvest. To his right a young French girl kneels...

  • Les Vainqueurs de la Marne, 1914 - 1918 [The Victors of the Marne 1914-1918] Les Vainqueurs de la Marne, 1914 - 1918 [The Victors of the Marne 1914-1918]

    (art) Made by: Benito, Edouard-Garcia (artist) 1918

    image: A small central image, rectangular (signed in the block lower right), shows the advance of American troops and tanks viewed from the rear, advancing across French countryside towards a burning hamlet (centre) by a river to the right. The main...