This photo shows men of the 53rd Battalion in their front line trench just before going over and launching the attack at Fromelle.
This photo shows the difficult conditions of trench warfare that the soldiers endured on the Somme and is a reminder that Australia lost 23 000 men here. It helps us remember the realities of war in the trenches and the difficult task that was given to these Australian men.
The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a painting by Sandro Botticelli generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. [more]
Letter - Queenie (Edith Florence) Avenell
The day after the ANZACs landed at Gallipoli, Queenie enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service. Throughout the war, Queenie dedicated herself to nursing soldiers in Egypt, France, England and Australia.
This letter helps us remember the experiences of women through the war and the contribution they made. Her light tone and joking manner is iconically Australian - getting on with the job and joking about marriage, even when the conditions are dreadful.
The Shrimp Girl
The Shrimp Girl is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth. It was painted around 1740–45, and is held by the National Gallery, London. [more]
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
