Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Date
1920
By
Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930
Reference
E-024-f-1
Description

Drawings illustrating events in the Great War, 1914-1919. The drawings duplicate others held in volumes E-024-q and E-024-q-2

Other Titles - With some events, are [and] history notes, that were only known later

Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s).

Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash drawings on postcards, 343 x 240 mm in half black morocco and buckram box

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1 sketchbook(s), Cartoons (Commentary), Drawings, Sketchbooks, Works of art, Pen, ink and wash drawings on postcards, 343 x 240 mm in half black morocco and buckram box
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Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Ostend. Zeebrugge. Nailed down. [1918. Drawn ca 1919]

Date: 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-029-a

Description: The leaders of the German navy (Von Tirpitz, seated on the left) and army (Von Ludendorff, standing on the right) on the Belgian shore gazing glumly out to sea. Refers to German losses at the end of World War I and the need to sue for peace Another copy of this drawing, E-024-q-1-029, has additional explanatory text referring to German submarine bases being destroyed in the English Channel, 1918 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm Provenance: , 1970s? Transfers: Transferred from MS-Papers-0016.

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Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :The blinkin' Boche / By gosh / Has had a splosh / Fr...

Date: 1916

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-027

Description: A smiling head and shoulders portrait of Marechal Ferdinand Foch in uniform Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

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Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :The Hun ruling. The military caste (and appeals to t...

Date: 1914 - 1920

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-002

Description: Head and shoulders caricatures of three German men in uniform. All have moustaches, all are laughing. One wears a monocle, one a pair of spectacles Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

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Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Nearing the end. Stop or I'll blow your brains out. ...

Date: 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-040

Description: One armed soldier pursuing another. The pursued soldier has dropped his rifle. Refers to the final days of World War I Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

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Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :How did you like my last little item on the mandolin...

Date: 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-034

Description: A cheerful-looking Italian soldier, carrying a mandolin and his rifle, looking at two miserable-looking soldiers, one possibly from Germany, one from Turkey. Other Titles - mandolin Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

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Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Some conditions for peace, May 1919. German colonies...

Date: 1914 - 1919

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-062-a

Description: A world map, showing German colonies lost under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, including land in Africa, China, and the Pacific, the latter including the Marshall Islands, the Caroline Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago and Samoa (in 1914). Other versions of this drawing, with variant titles and surrounding notes are held at E-024-q-1-062 and E-024-q-2-039 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

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Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Poor man, and you were wounded at the front. No Ma'a...

Date: 1914

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-060

Description: An elderly woman talking to a limping soldier, a walking stick in one hand, his other hand on his back. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

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Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :[Expeditionary force from New Zealand. Utu. 1914. Dr...

Date: 1914 - 1919

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-013-a

Description: A New Zealand soldier frightening a German soldier by threatening him with a carved Maori head. Another version of this drawing, E-024-q-2-005, includes surrounding text indicating that the image refers to New Zealand troops taking Samoa from the Germans in 1914 Source of title: Other copies of the same view held at E-024-q-003 and E-024-q-1-003, with surrounding text Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm Transfers: Transfer from MS-Papers-0016, 1970s?.

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Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :C'est bien loin, loin, loin a Tipperary, Mais on y v...

Date: 1914

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-067

Description: A French soldier, the French words for the song 'It's a long way to Tipperary' written alongside him. He holds a German pickelhaube helmet in his hands, referred to in the words of the song Loose at front of album Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm Provenance: , 1970s Transfers: Transferred from MS-Papers-0016.

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Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Von H an honourable peace or fight to the last man. ...

Date: 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-041

Description: Von Hindenburg standing on the left, glaring at a miserable-looking low-ranking soldier. Refers to German peace options towards the end of World War I Other versions of this drawing, with variant surrounding notes, are held at E-024-q-041 and E-024-q-2-044 Other Titles - Peace Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm