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Unknown Artists

6,941 works

WWI recruitment poster with crossed Union Jack and Red Ensign flags and text urging men aged 18-50 to fight for the King.

If you were a German aged 18-50 you would be fighting for the Kaiser! What are you doing for the King!

Unknown artist, 1915

Cream WWI-style poster with a Union Jack and red pointing hand asking whether British freedom is worth defending.

Have you asked yourself 1. Is British freedom worth defending? 2. Am I helping to defend it? 3. If not, why not?

Unknown artist, 1915

Wartime poster showing a submarine behind a sailor holding a Red Cross nurse in the sea, with text urging Victory Bonds.

Victory Bonds will help stop this. Kulture vs. humanity

Unknown artist, 1918

Canadian WWI recruitment poster with crossed Union Jack and Red Ensign flags, listing enlistment facts and urging men to enli

Facts for Canadians who enlist for overseas service. ... Kitchener wants more Canadians! Enlist now!

Unknown artist, 1915

Vintage 1915 recruitment poster with a Union Jack and bold red and blue text urging men to enlist now.

You said you would go when you were needed. You are needed NOW!

Unknown artist, 1915

Red and cream recruitment poster listing overseas service pay scales, separation allowances, and how to enlist in Montreal.

Overseas service scale of pay [and] How to enlist

Unknown artist, 1915

Canadian WWI recruitment poster posing four questions to unenlisted men, ending with the call to enlist today.

4 questions to men who have not enlisted. ... Enlist to-day

Unknown artist, 1915

WWI Canadian poster: soldier with pistol and tin cups, prisoners with raised hands, slogan 'We licked them at the front, you

Thrift stamps. We licked them at the front, you lick them at the back

Unknown artist, 1915

Poster of a reclining man with a newspaper, a thought bubble showing a soldier in battle, and the slogan 'Why Don't I Go?' on

Why don't I go? The 148th Battalion needs me

Unknown artist, 1915

Poster of a nurse reaching toward a soldier on rubble, with a burning cathedral and town behind them, advertising Coeurs viri

Lire dans L'Evenement. Coeurs virils . . . par Gabriel Mauriére

Unknown artist, 1914

French 1915 poster with a portrait of Miss Cavell beside a kneeling angel with bowed head, red and blue stripes behind.

Miss Cavell fusillée par les Allemands à Bruxelles le 12 octobre 1915

Unknown artist, 1915

Color poster advertising Le Petit Journal with an oval portrait of General Joffre in military uniform and medals.

Le Petit journal donnera a tous ses acheteurs en prime gratuite les cartes des trois principaux fronts .

Unknown artist, 1914

German 1919 poster: a skeleton dances with a crowned woman in a gown beside bold gothic text warning Berlin of death.

Berlin, halt ein! Besinne dich. Dein Tänzer ist der Tod

Unknown artist, 1919

Black and cream poster of a field artillery gun firing beneath a smoke cloud, with trenches and German lettering below.

Artillerie-Stellungen

Unknown artist, 1915

Poster of a man wrestling a black serpent against a yellow sky, with German slogan against Bolshevism below.

Nieder mit dem Bolschewismus. Bolschewismus bringt Krieg und Verderben, Hunger und Tod

Unknown artist, 1919

Orange and black German propaganda poster showing a distressed man, woman and child before a burning village with riders.

Not, Elend, Hunger, Zerstörung bringt der Bolschewismus

Unknown artist, 1919

German political poster with a fiery battle scene, imperial eagle, skulls, and blackletter text over a Bavarian diamond patte

Der Feind ist im Land! So wehr' dich der Schand, Wie Lautet des Feldgeschrei: Bayerische Volkspartei!

Unknown artist, 1920

Poster with a central figure raising both arms to a cloudy sky, two seated figures below, and the German text "Vergesst uns G

Vergesst uns Gefangene nicht

Unknown artist, 1919

Hand-coloured plate of Fissurella limpet shells numbered 64 to 69, showing exterior and interior views with radiating ribs.

The conchological illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent - Plate (page 145)

Unknown artist, 1832

Lithograph of a grey whale's tail and flukes rising from the water, labeled Plate XI, Great Polar Whale, 1874.

The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America - Plate XI

Unknown artist, 1874

Grey printed botanical illustration of a broad buckler fern frond with labelled leaflets, from The ferns of Sidmouth, 1862.

The ferns of Sidmouth - Plate (page 35)

Unknown artist, 1862

Hand-coloured plate of a red, green and blue Tabuan parrakeet perched on a bare branch.

Illustrations of the family of Psittacidœ, or parrots - Plate 16

Unknown artist, 1832

Hand-colored entomological plate showing green and dark caterpillars, a chrysalis, two moths and a yellow flower on plant ste

Iconographie et description de chenilles et lépidopteres inédits - Plate 5

Unknown artist, 1859

Hand-coloured engraved plate showing four bivalve shells with concentric green and yellow growth rings, numbered XII.

Illustrations of the land and fresh water conchology of Great Britain and Ireland - Plate XII

Unknown artist, 1845

Lithographic plate showing numbered fossil bones, vertebrae, limb bones and a jaw fragment with teeth.

Hitherto unpublished plates of Tertiary Mammalia and Permian Vertebrata - Plate (page 117)

Unknown artist, 1915

Hand-coloured botanical engraving of Cerastium semidecandrum with stems, flowers, and dissection details.

Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs - Plate 33

Unknown artist, 1777

Hand-coloured plate of a black swallow puff-bird with orange breast and white wing patch perched on a branch.

A selection of the birds of Brazil and Mexico - Plate 36

Unknown artist, 1841

Scientific plate of a lacewing insect with veined wings and long antennae, with a smaller figure above, labelled Tab. 18.

Symbolae ad monographiam generis chrysopae, Leach - Plate 18

Unknown artist, 1851

Hand-coloured plate of a pygmy antelope standing above a white antelope lying on grass, from an 1811 natural history book.

The natural history of quadrupeds, and cetaceous animals - Plate 91

Unknown artist, 1811

Hand-coloured botanical plate of Petasostylis nigrescens with blue flowers, green leaves and grey dissection details.

Herbier général de l'amateur, deuxiéme série - Plate (page 167)

Unknown artist, 1847

Watercolour plate of a rufous whistling duck with dark wing feathers standing by reeds in marsh vegetation.

Illustrations of Indian ornithology - Plate XXIII

Unknown artist, 1847

Plate 37 showing three swallowtail butterflies in black and cream, with a flowering stem and bulbs with roots.

Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects - Plate 37

Unknown artist, 1841