Cenotaph at Whitehall,

Ashmolean Museum

 

Today is Armistice Day, commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the end of the First World War and the armistice signed.

This is Stanley Anderson's 1919 etching of the original wood and plaster Cenotaph at Whitehall, replaced in 1920 with the permanent Portland stone version which remains a focal point for the annual national service of Remembrance.

Also shown are Christopher Nevinson's 'In the Air', Claude Shepperson's 'Casualty Clearing Station in France', and Archibald Standish Hartrick's 'Underground in Wartime'.

Read about all of these, and more, on our online WW1 exhibition 'Artists Under Fire' which reveals the effects of the war on soldiers and civilians alike, as seen through the eyes of contemporary artists: ashmolean.org/event/artists-under-fire