Issachar Ber Ryback illustrations. Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance. Most of the lithographs done in 1917. He was truly at the fore of the Yiddish avant-garde.

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Morphing.

From “On Growth and Form” by D’Arcy Wentworh Thompson, 1917.

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Egon Schiele (1890–1918), 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳, 1917.

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9 May 1917. At 16.50hrs, German ace Werner Voss of Jasta 2, flying an Albatros D-III, destroyed a Sopwith Pup over Lesdain. Art by Iain Wyllie.

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in 1915, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat.

1,198 people were killed, including 128 American citizens.

The sinking of the Lusitania turned political, press and public opinion in the USA against Germany.

The USA eventually declared war on Germany in April 1917.

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Painting by Charles Bryant, AWM ART12418, depicts 1st Royal Australian Navy vessel, HMAS Sydney, to be attacked from the air May 4 1917. Imperial German Naval Zeppelin L-43 (LZ 92) duelled for 2 hrs with the squad until it ran out of bombs to drop. https://t.co/Xnb5jlNHyk

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John William Waterhouse. 1849-1917.
A Mermaid, 1900.

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Sir Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914–1917. The ship is named 'Endurance'. My previous set of Babelised images from their voyage proved popular, so I offer you 4 more, taken on that expedition by Frank Hurley 106 years ago. They are not colourised.

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Charles Jay Strong's "Book of designs"; a masterpiece of modern ornamental art from 1917.

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Llueve en mi tierra.
Paul Gustav Fischer - Vesterbrogade, 1917.

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❛ People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

Happy birthday to the Surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington, born in 1917.

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The Kremlin in the March sunlight, 1917. A moment, captured by Leonid Pasternak whose day is today.

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Mar 26 1917 saw an Ottoman victory at the First Battle of Gaza. This Regimental Standard was presented to the defenders of Gaza, who repulsed the first British attack, 1917.

LC-DIG-ppmsca-13709-00116 (digital file from original on page 33, no.115)
https://t.co/8LkLKRfJlN

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"Mother and Children". Moise Kisling. 1917.

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'The Mad Mulrannies' / Harry Clarke.
1917.
Illustration to J. M. Synge’s 'The Playboy of the Western World'.
Pen and ink on Bristol board.
Reproduced in Crampton Walker’s 'Irish Life and Landscape' (1927) with facsimile of Harry's autograph.

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The Norwegian poet Herman Wildenvey by painter Isaac Grünewald (1889-1946), Sweden, 1917.

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"L'attaque", par Aurel Băeșu, 1917. Bien que mobilisé dans l'armée roumaine, le peintre impressionniste Aurel Băeșu combat peu et est vite envoyé dans une section artistique de l'armée.

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Zinaida Serebryakova - Bleaching Cloth, 1917. Oil on canvas, 142 х 175.5 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

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Hunting Party - Bristol F2B, Lieutenant Keith Park leading, 1917. Art by Lee Lacey.

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