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• The British Museum: Sketches of Sandbagged Sculptures in the Egyptian Gallery

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: in the left half is a sketch of three sculptures standing alongside one another in the Egyptian gallery of the British Museum. In the right half is a sketch of a sculpture and two piles of sandbags protecting further sculptures, also in the...

• The British Museum: Sketches of Sandbagged Sculptures in the Northern Egyptian and Assyrian Galleries

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: in the left half is a sketch of an interior view of part of the Northern Egyptian gallery in the British Museum, with an ancient pillar standing in the centre of the room and the sculpted head of Rameses II visible in the background. In the right...

• The British Museum : removing sandbags in the Northern Egyptian Gallery

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: an interior view of the Northern Egyptian gallery in the British Museum, with several workmen in the process of removing sandbags, which are arranged in large piles against the tall walls. The formost workman has a wheelbarrow at the ready, with a...

• The British Museum : Sandbagged sculpture in the Egyptian Gallery

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: an interior view of the Egyptian gallery in the British Museum, with a few workers standing amongst large piles of sandbags used to protect sculptures in the event of an air raid. One stone pharoah head is visible to the left.

• Inside the Eagle Hut, Aldwych

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA)

  image: a group of American soldiers and sailors sit and stand before a large map of the USA mounted on the wall of the YMCA Eagle Hut at Aldwych.

• Kensington Palace and Allotments

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA)

  image: a view of the red brick Kensington Palace with the surrounding grounds converted for use as allotments in the foreground. A few men and women are at work maintaining the plots, which appear full of vegetables.

• The Eagle Hut, Aldwych

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA)

  image: a view across the wooden buildings of the American YMCA Eagle Hut in Aldwych, constructed adjacent to St Mary le Strand church, which is visible immediately behind. Two horse-drawn carts full of American soldiers are on the road in front of the...

• Trafalgar Square, October 1918 : War Savings Campaign: 'Feed the Guns'

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: a view across Trafalgar Square in central London, which has been filled with a display to publicise the British war savings campaign. A large crowd of people mill around amongst a mock up of a Low Countries battlefield scene, complete with...

• Captured German Guns in the Mall, 1918

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: a crowd walk around amongst an array of captured German artillery guns, placed on display along the Mall, with Buckingham Palace in the background.

• Study of a Girl Milking

  (art) Made by: Schwabe, Randolph

  image: a study of a woman of the Women's Land Army sitting with her back to the viewer, shown diagonally in profile, milking a cow. She wears the typical overalls of the WLA and has her hair tied up in a scarf. Only the udders of the cow are depicted,...