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Original The Greatest Mother in the World vintage World War poster
Located in Spokane, WA
poster depicts a monumental Red Cross nurse as a "Madonna" on one knee cradling in her arms a bandaged
Category

1910s American Realist Antique Nurses

Materials

Lithograph

"Tree in Winter" Delos Palmer Jr, Sketch of Tree 20th Century Impressionist Work
Located in New York, NY
lived in a private townhouse at 48 West 50th Street, with a cook, a waitress, and a nurse to assist in
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Original Help the Greatest Mother in the World, The War Chest, vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Michelangelo's "Pieta," the image in this poster depicts a monumental Red Cross nurse as a "Madonna" on one knee
Category

1910s American Realist Antique Nurses

Materials

Lithograph

Garstin Cox, Impressionist painting of Cornwall woods in the Fall, Autumn colour
Located in Harkstead, GB
Newlyn Society of Artists in 1925. Tragically, whilst helping to nurse his ailing father during the
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Oil, Board

Original Antique British War Recruitment Propaganda Poster Are You In This WWI
Located in London, GB
flag with a young Boy Scout helping, a nurse in uniform ready to look after the wounded, a lady
Category

1910s British Antique Nurses

Materials

Paper

By Queen Victoria s Daughter Princess Alice Framed Royal Watercolor Painting
By HRH Princess Alice Maud Mary Hanover
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
compassion meant that she took on the role of the family caregiver. She nursed her grandmother, Victoria
Category

Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Pencil

French art by master, a Mediterraneen Woman, Oil signed.
By Henri Gervex
Located in PARIS, FR
), Gervex represents nurses treating soldiers and thus highlights their difficult working conditions during
Category

Late 19th Century Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Oil

Antique Carved Stone Lion Head Sculpture
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
their fate. The third dog survived his fight and was nursed back to health with great care by the
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17th Century Antique Nurses

Materials

Sandstone

Graphite Study of a Head, Monogrammed Victorian Sketch, Gilt Fame
By Henry Perronet Briggs
Located in London, GB
 Juliet and her Nurse. His large painting of George III presenting the Sword to Lord Howe on board the
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Early 19th Century Antique Nurses

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Cornwall Harbour View, circa 1930 by Sir Walter Westley Russell CVO RA
Located in Blackwater, GB
Hugh Dowding (oil on canvas); Staff Nurse R. Rosser (1942, oil on canvas) London (Royal Academy): Alice
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Early 20th Century Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rehearsal, Victorian-Era Oil Painting on Canvas by Francis Sydney Muschamp
By Francis Sydney Muschamp
Located in Long Island City, NY
– these include: The Merchant of Venice, The Sonnet, Much Ado about Nothing, Juliet and her Nurse, The
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Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hamilton 14Kt. Gold Cushion Shaped Watch with Original Dial Bracelet 1925
By Hamilton
Located in Long Beach, CA
:00. This was done so Hamilton could use the movement for as pendant watch, perhaps for nurse. More
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1920s American Art Deco Antique Nurses

The Italian Girl, Oil on Canvas, 1924
By Charles Picart le Doux
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
First World War plunges him, as a nurse, closer to the horror. He will come out broken and definitively
Category

1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

G. A. Rochegrosse (1859-1938) , Study for "Le Cocher" original drawing
By Georges Antoine Rochegrosse
Located in Paris, FR
illness contracted at the hospital in Algiers where she was a nurse. Inconsolable, he goes so far as to
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1910s Symbolist Antique Nurses

Materials

Carbon Pencil

Vally Wiethelthier, Drunken Sailor, Art Deco Art Ceramic Figurine, ca. 1925
Located in New York, NY
, Jodef Hoffmann and Michael Powolny from 1914 to 1920. In addition, she worked as an auxiliary nurse
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1920s Italian Art Deco Antique Nurses

Materials

Ceramic

Expressionist Ceramic Sculptural Vase Attributed to Vally Wieselthier, c. 1920
By Vally Wieselthier
Located in New York, NY
auxiliary nurse during the First World War. From 1917 to 1922, she worked for the Wiener Werkstatte. From
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1920s Austrian Expressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Ceramic

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, First Trade Edition, in Dust Jacket
By Ernest Hemingway
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
served overseas as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army, sustained injuries, and met a nurse who he
Category

1920s American Modern Antique Nurses

Materials

Paper

Edgar Chahine / Gongourt Bros. – Soeur Philomène
Located in Middletown, NY
the fate of a nurse from Rouen. For the description of the hospital environment the Goncourts did on
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Early 19th Century French Antique Nurses

Materials

Copper

Cambridgeshire map 17th century engraving by John Speed
By John Speed
Located in London, GB
Grantcester, Camboritum by Antonine, now famous Cambridge, the other brest and Nurse-mother of all pious
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1610s Antique Nurses

Materials

Engraving

Painting french school romantic 19th century oil on canvas Interior of a bakery
Located in PARIS, FR
. The legend is that when this dispirited young man announced to his nurse that he wanted to become a
Category

19th Century Romantic Antique Nurses

Materials

Oil

Rare Model Empire Clock Depicting Faustulus Discovering Romolus and Remus
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
. According to legend, Faustulus carried the babies back to his sheepfold for his wife Acca Larentia to nurse
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Nurses

Materials

Griotte Marble, Bronze

Erminia and the Shepherds, a painting by Francesco de Mura (Napoli 1696 - 1782)
By Francesco de Mura
Located in PARIS, FR
female warrior with whom Tancredi is in love, to join him and nurse him back to health after a battle in
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1760s Old Masters Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th Century Art Nouveau Bronze Bust Entitled "Bohémienne" by Emmanuel Villanis
By Emmanuel Villanis
Located in London, GB
. Rodolfo immediately takes her in and tries to nurse her back to health, but he is too late. Almost as soon
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Nurses

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Søren Jensen Maple Grand Piano Caryatid Legs Hand-Painted by Gudmund Hentze
Located in Leeds, GB
. Oval 3 - A nurse snoozes next to a cot as a baby is stolen Oval 4 - A seated maiden offers a scarlet
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Early 20th Century Danish Antique Nurses

Materials

Metal

19th Century, Pair of French Gilt Bronze Fireplace Chenets
Located in IT
fertility, nume tutela dei raccolti, protector of agriculture and wheat, constant nurse of youth and green
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Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Nurses

Materials

Bronze

Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, Later Printing, 1929
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
served overseas as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army, sustained injuries, and met a nurse who he
Category

1920s American Antique Nurses

Materials

Paper

Ancient Oak Trees in Lullingstone Park, Samuel Palmer Watercolour and Ink
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in London, GB
. Palmer was born in London, the son of a bookseller and a nurse. Palmer painted churches from around age
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Mid-19th Century English School Antique Nurses

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Lovely Victorian Sterling Chatelaine
Located in New York, NY
hostess, nurse or secretary. Often fully intact and original chatelaines can tell the story of its owner
Category

Late 19th Century American Arts and Crafts Antique Nurses

A View Near Redhill, 19th Century Pen and Ink Drawing by Samuel Palmer
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in London, GB
produced visionary pastoral paintings. Palmer was born in London, the son of a bookseller and a nurse
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19th Century Antique Nurses

Materials

Ink, Pen

San Camilo
Located in Mexico, DF
saint of the sick, nurses and dyeing people, is almost always depicted as he is here, ministering to his
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Early 19th Century North American Spanish Colonial Antique Nurses

Materials

Other

Sketch-book Page, Shoreham, Samuel Palmer, Late 19th Century
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in London, GB
. Palmer was born in London, the son of a bookseller and a nurse. Palmer painted churches from around age
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Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Cambridge map 17th century engraving after John Speed
By John Speed
Located in London, GB
, now famous Cambridge, the other brest and Nurse-mother of all pious literature, have flowed full
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1620s Antique Nurses

Materials

Engraving

Daily Life in Seto Islands, Japan - Albumen Print 1870/1890
Located in Roma, IT
with a nurse and a beautiful portrait of two farmers in rain-clothes. This particular typology of
Category

1880s Antique Nurses

Materials

Photographic Paper

G. A. Rochegrosse (1859-1938) Studies of men, original drawing
By Georges Antoine Rochegrosse
Located in Paris, FR
illness contracted at the hospital in Algiers where she was a nurse. Inconsolable, he goes so far as to
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1910s Symbolist Antique Nurses

Materials

Carbon Pencil

Original 1890’s Linen Backed Theatrical Stage Poster Holden s Mannikins
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
, Cowboys, Mimes, Nurses, Fairies... This poster has an address for a theatre in St. Martin Paris, France
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

Paper, Linen

Fine 19th Century White Marble Sculpture of “Rebecca at the Well”
Located in Los Angeles, CA
sent her off with her nurse, Deborah (according to Rashi), and blessed her, "Our sister, may you come
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Late 19th Century Unknown Neoclassical Antique Nurses

Materials

Marble

18th Century Italian Neoclassical Wood Dresser Attributed to Francesco Bolgiè
By Francesco Bolgié
Located in IT
goddess of fertility, the guardian of crops, protector of agriculture and wheat, constant nurse of youth
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Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Nurses

Materials

Giltwood, Wood

Pecheurs en Mer (Fishermen at Sea)
Located in San Francisco, CA
in 1915 to the 3rd territorial section of military nurses in Étretat (he is precisely secretary
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Nurses

Materials

Oil

G A Rochegrosse (1859-1938) Study for the Exposition Internationale Paris 1900
By Georges Antoine Rochegrosse
Located in Paris, FR
wife in 1920 following an illness contracted at the hospital in Algiers where she was a nurse
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1890s Symbolist Antique Nurses

Materials

Charcoal, Carbon Pencil

The Eyes have "It" - Liberty Magazine Cover
By Leslie Thrasher
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Ulysses and his French nurse, Antoinette. Lil dreams about buying a lavish mansion with their newfound
Category

1920s Antique Nurses

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fine Indian Silver Nurses Buckle
Located in Worcester, Worcestershire
Nurses buckle Composition Indian silver, unhallmarked Dimensions 12 x 7 cm Weight 62 grams
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19th Century Antique Nurses

Materials

Sterling Silver

Antique Silver and Marcasite Nurse’s / Brooch Watch
Located in Carlisle, GB
This beautiful antique hand winding brooch watch is Not working but the balance is good and spinning when shake or move. Visible signs of ageing and wear with some seeds / stones are...
Category

1920s Swiss Antique Nurses

Materials

Marcasite, Silver

Victorian Two Color Nurses Belt Buckle with Colored Paste, English, circa 1900
Located in London, GB
An unusual and finely detailed Nurses belt buckle dating from the Victorian era. Typical of the
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Early 1900s British Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

Gilt Metal

Original Woodblock Print By Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Japan Meiji Era
By Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Located in Saverne, Grand Est
the entrance gate of his nurse’s home on Katada Bay, on the western shore of Lake Biwa. Fading of
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1880s Japanese Meiji Antique Nurses

Materials

Paper

18th century painted leather screen
Located in Penzance, GB
interior decorator's piece. The subject of the painting is children playing. A nurse looks after the
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18th Century English Antique Nurses

Materials

Leather

Jacobean Nursery/Throne Chair, Once Belonging to Bomber Harris
Located in Inverness, GB
original intended use of the chair - a nursing chair. With the swept arms the mother or nurse maid, could
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18th Century British Jacobean Antique Nurses

Materials

Leather, Oak

Pair of Empire Period Porcelain Vases 19th Century
By Empire Art Products Co.
Located in Vilnius, LT
One scene decorated with a vase, in which the nurses are crying because of the death of the
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1820s French Empire Antique Nurses

Materials

Porcelain

Katsushika Hokusai, Seashore, Empress Jito, Japanese Woodblock Print, Ukiyo-e
By Katsushika Hokusai
Located in London, GB
Nurse Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi Published: 1835-1838 Size: 37.5 x 24.4 cm Condition report: Worn
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Early 19th Century Edo Antique Nurses

Materials

Handmade Paper, Washi Paper, Pigment, Woodcut

Original Antique British War Recruitment Propaganda Poster Are You In This WWI
Located in London, GB
flag with a young Boy Scout helping, a nurse in uniform ready to look after the wounded, a lady
Category

1910s Antique Nurses

Materials

Paper

Katsushika Hokusai, Ukiyo-e, Japanese Woodblock Print, Poem, Landscape, Edo
By Katsushika Hokusai
Located in London, GB
Narrated by the Nurse Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi Date: 1835-1845 Size: 36.8 x 25.5 cm Condition report
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Mid-19th Century Edo Antique Nurses

Materials

Handmade Paper, Washi Paper, Pigment, Woodcut

Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese Woodblock Print, 19th Century, Ukiyo-e, Red Sunset
By Katsushika Hokusai
Located in London, GB
Poems Narrated by the Nurse Publisher: Nishimura Yohachi Date: circa 1835-1845 Size: 37.4 x 25.4 cm
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Early 19th Century Edo Antique Nurses

Materials

Handmade Paper, Washi Paper, Pigment, Woodcut

Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese Woodblock Print, Boats, Ukiyo-e, Tanka Poem, Edo
By Katsushika Hokusai
Located in London, GB
Poems Narrated by the Nurse Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi Date: 1835-1838 Size: 36.5 x 25.0 cm
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Early 19th Century Edo Antique Nurses

Materials

Handmade Paper, Washi Paper, Pigment, Woodcut

19th Century Eduard Kletschka "The Deluded Husband"
Located in San Francisco, CA
A playful pooch narrative unfolds as the new mother nurses her collection of pups under the
Category

19th Century English Antique Nurses

Materials

Paint, Board

Dunes at Ostend
By Erich Heckel
Located in München, DE
At the outbreak of World War I, Heckel completed a training as a nurse with the Red Cross
Category

1910s Antique Nurses

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese Woodblock Print, Imperial Court, Ukiyo-e, Gagaku
By Katsushika Hokusai
Located in London, GB
Narrated by the Nurse Publisher: Eijudoh-Nishimuraya Yohachi Published: circa 1835-1838 Size: 25 cm x
Category

Early 19th Century Edo Antique Nurses

Materials

Handmade Paper, Washi Paper, Pigment, Woodcut

First World War Medals, France and Belgium in a Display Box, Set of Nine
Located in Petaluma, CA
, Marne, Iser, Somme, Verdun Hommage aux handicapés, nurse standing by a wounded soldier sitting on a
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1910s French Modern Antique Nurses

Materials

Metal

Antique Victorian Hours Leading the Horses of the Sun Pink Shell Cameo Brooch
Located in London, GB
. She is a handmaid of Harmonia, Nurse of the World. She attends the South Wind's gate of Harmonia's
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19th Century Italian Victorian Antique Nurses

Materials

18k Gold

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Antique Nurses For Sale on 1stDibs

An assortment of antique nurses is available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of metal, paper and wood, all antique nurses available were constructed with great care. Antique nurses have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Victorian, Art Deco and industrial antique nurses are consistently popular styles. Antique nurses have been a part of the life’s work for many furniture makers, but those produced by Ernest Hemingway, Musy Gioielli and Isamu Noguchi are consistently popular.

How Much are Antique Nurses?

Prices for antique nurses can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, antique nurses begin at $85 and can go as high as $294,283, while the average can fetch as much as $2,767.