‘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 Dreadnought'; the paper later became the 'Workers' Dreadnought' ...
'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 Edgbaston Southern General Hospital. Although wounded ...
Ann Street School, Birmingham
Oil painting by Alfred H. Green (c.1822-?).
Past schooling is brought vibrantly to life in this painting. We can see infants sewing, reading, listening, watching, falling asleep, crying, putting on ...
Bath Row Redevelopment Scheme
Pencil sketch by Reginald Edgecombe depicting an artist impression of new housing and road infrastructure for the new Bath Row Redevelopment Zone which encompassed Lee Bank.
'Being Marked Out'
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards the medical and administrative staff. ...
Cadbury Works
Michael Reilly’s picture depicts an industrial yet wholesome scene and owes much to its vibrant colours. The polluting aspects of chocolate production are minimised with chimneys seemingly devoid of any ...
Calthorpe Park
Painting depicting the opening of Calthorpe Park, by Samuel Lines Snr.
Carpenter’s Mill, with Birmingham in the distance
This drawing gives a vivid impression of Edgbaston's rural landscape in the nineteenth century. St Thomas's Church, The Windmill on Holloway Head and St Martin's Church are visible in the distance.
'Charity', by Bourguereau
Oil painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).
For the early Christian Church ‘Charity’ was the ‘mother of all virtues’. From at least the 16th century artists and poets depicted Charity as ...
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 of the key stages in cocoa cultivation, from harvesting through ...
David Cox - 'A Gypsy Encampment'
Artists have often sentimentalised gypsies, using them as local colour in idealised rural settings. Here, however, it appears that David Cox has sketched these people from life, and they are the main ...
Domestic Interior, by Reginald Edgecombe
The Edgecombe drawings demonstrate that urban planners in Birmingham were considering the internal layout as much as the external appearance of new houses. This sketch illustrates the creative processes ...
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 Obliterator' appeared in his anti-war pamphlet 'Fables and ...
'Going to bed', by Joscelyne Gaskin
Joscelyne Gaskin (1903-1993) was the daughter of the Birmingham artists and designers Arthur Joseph Gaskin and Georgie Evelyn Cave France. Her parents both worked in a variety of media, with Georgie initially ...
'Grace before Meat', by David Wilkie
Oil painting by David Wilkie (1785-1841).
‘Grace before Meat‘ shows three generations of a family saying a prayer before sharing a meal together. In paintings like this, Wilkie presented an intimate ...
'Gypsies near Bromford Forge', by Joseph Barber
There have been Romany travellers or ‘gypsies’ in Britain since the 1500s, and from the beginning they were suspected and persecuted. The first evidence we have of a travelling family in Birmingham comes ...
James Bissett ( 1762?- 1832)
Submitted by Mike Hunkin, Birmingham Archives and Heritage
James Bisset was born in the city of Perth, Scotland, around the year 1762. Not a great deal is known about his early life and family background. ...
Landscape, by Roger Fry
This is one of six paintings by Roger Fry housed in University House, Edgbaston, where his sister Margery Fry was warden until 1914. Fry was an artist, critic and founder of the Omega Workshops, whose ...