‘Europe Peace or Famine - Which’, by Joseph Southall

The Edgbaston Quaker artist Joseph Southall contributed occasional prints to Sylvia Pankhurst's anti-war suffragette broadsheet 'The Woman's Dreadn...

‘No child can resist’, Picture Post

Advertisers used images of children to catch the viewer’s eye. As families became more affluent they also targeted children as consumers. These adv...

Fables and Illustrations, by Joseph Southall

This powerful nightmare vision of a weapon of mass destruction is by the Quaker artist Joseph Southall who lived and worked in Edgbaston. 'The Obli...

A Gypsy Encampment, by David Cox

Artists have often sentimentalised gypsies, using them as local colour in idealised rural settings. Here, however, it appears that David Cox has sk...

Cocoa - The Story of its Cultivation, illustrated by Frank Newbould

Frank Newbould’s designs for Cocoa: the Story of its Cultivation, were in a bold graphic style. He used vibrant colours to illustrate some o...

Landscape, by Roger Fry

This is one of six paintings by Roger Fry housed in University House, Edgbaston, where his sister

Mr Wheeley's, Edgbaston, by Charles Barber

Many of Charles Barber’s drawings are simply labelled with their district rather than a specific location, but this farmhouse is helpfully titled <...

Sketch for Peace, by Joseph Southall

This sketch is from a collection of material relating to the artist Joseph Southall held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Galleries. Southall was b...

The Junction, Kings Norton, by Frank Lockwood

Campaigning for Canals in Kings Norton Frank Lockwood’s pencil drawing The Junction, Kings Norton shows the toll house i...

The Sitting Room, by Myra Bunce

‘Mr. Bunce is an intense lover of art and artists […] notable examples of Wainwright, of his old friend Henshaw, of H. Moore, Langley, J. Collier, ...

'A Medical Board', by W.L. Sherwood

This caricature by Staff-Sergeant W.L. Sherwood presents a sardonic view of the Medical Boards, which decided the fates of many soldiers during the...

'A Patient's Nightmare', by Will Adams

This grim satirical caricature conveys something of the deeply divided emotional response experienced by soldiers who were surgical patients in the...