The ‘Click here for more information’ links below will take you to downloadable / printable pdfs with extracts from the descriptions that were printed alongside Matania’s pictures.
You can read more about The Sphere on the Illustrated London News WWI Archive
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1. ‘The work of the Royal Army Medical Corps: First Aid in the trenches R.A.M.C. orderlies gathering the wounded in a British trench after a successful advance’. Pen, brush, ink, grey wash and white heightening. Inscribed verso: ‘March 6th, 1915, pages 254-255’. Stamped: ‘The Sphere’. Illustrated: The Sphere, London, 6th March, 1915, pp.254-5. 12x20.5 inches. Literature: Lucinda Gosling, Goodbye, Old Man: Matania’s Vision of the First World War, History Press, 2014, Ill. p.53.Click for more information
2. ‘Regent Street’, Ploegsteert (‘Plugstreet’) Wood, eight miles south of Ypres. Pen, brush, ink and grey wash. Inscribed verso: ‘Passed by the Censor. Major A. Stuart, GHQ, 14.5.15’ and ‘The Sphere 29th May 1915’. Illustrated: The Sphere, London, 29th May, 1915, pp.216-217. Literature: Lucinda Gosling, Goodbye, Old Man: Matania’s Vision of the First World War, History Press, 2014, Ill. p.56. 12x20.5 inches. Click for more information
3. General Count Luigi Cadorna (1850-1928), Commander-In-Chief of the Italian Army. Pencil, grey wash and gouache. Inscribed verso ‘Sphere 19 June 1915 p.287’. Stamped: ‘The Sphere No.864’. Illustrated: The Sphere, London, 19th June, 1915, p.287. 11x7 inches. Click for more information
4. Afternoon tea in a ruined farmstead behind the British Lines in the Ypres District. Pen, brush, ink, grey wash and gouache. Signed. Inscribed verso: ‘Passed by the Censor Major A. Stuart, GHQ’. ‘No.36 June 1915’. Illustrated: The Sphere, London, 5th June, 1915, pp.240-241. Literature: Lucinda Gosling, Goodbye, Old Man: Matania’s Vision of the First World War, History Press, 2014, Ill. p.57. 13.5x20.75 inches.Click for more information
5. Returned Soldiers working in a Munitions Factory. Pen, brush, ink and wash. Signed. Inscribed verso: ‘Sphere / 11.9.15’, ‘No 37 Sept.1915’. Stamped: ‘Sphere No. 816’. Illustrated: ‘The Sphere’, London, 11th September, 1915, p.285. Literature: Lucinda Gosling, Goodbye, Old Man: Matania’s Vision of the First World War, History Press, 2014, Ill. p.131. 13.5x10 inches.Click for more information
6. ‘A Scot rescuing girl’ in Loos, during the Battle of Loos. Pen, brush, ink and grey wash. Signed. Inscribed verso: ‘Sphere 9th Oct 1915 page 27’’. Stamped: ‘Sphere’ no.820’. Illustrated: ‘The Sphere’, London, 9th October, 1915, Front Cover. 12x10 inches.Click for more information
7. ‘Keeping off a night attack’. Pen, brush, ink and grey wash. Signed. Inscribed verso: ‘25th Dec 1915, page 327’, stamped: ‘The Sphere no.8(?1)3’. Illustrated: The Sphere, London, 25th December, 1915, p.327. Literature: Lucinda Gosling, Goodbye, Old Man: Matania’s Vision of the First World War, History Press, 2014, Ill. p.131. 13.75x9.75 inches.Click for more information
8. ‘Home from the Trenches’. Pen, brush, ink and grey wash. Signed. Inscribed verso and dated ‘1/1/16’. Stamped: ‘The Sphere No.832’. Illustrated: The Sphere, London, 1 January, 1916, No.64, Front Cover. Literature: Lucinda Gosling, Goodbye, Old Man: Matania’s Vision of the First World War, History Press, 2014, Ill. p.64. 12.5x10 inches. Click for more information
9. German Gas: a British Attack"https://www.abbottandholder.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/83022360.jpg">click here). 12x10 inches.Click for more information
10. Italian Artillery rounding a pass in the Alps. Pen, brush, ink and wash. Signed. Inscribed verso: ‘Sph. 4/11/1916. P.78’. ‘No.41’. Stamped: ‘Sphere no. 876’. Illustrated: The Sphere, London, 4th November, 1916, Front Cover. 13.25x10 inches. Click for more information
11. Ugo Matania (1888-1979) Germans fleeing a British Tank. Gouache. Inscribed verso: ‘2/12/16’, ‘No.42, Dec.1916’. 16.5x11 inches. Click for more information
12. Snow ball fight behind the Front. Pen, brush, ink and grey wash. Signed. Inscribed verso: ‘Feb.1917. No.44.’ On label: ‘Sph.3/2/1917 p.85’. ‘Stamped: ‘The Sphere No.889’. Illustrated: The Sphere, London, 3rd February, 1917. Literature: Lucinda Gosling, Goodbye, Old Man: Matania’s Vision of the First World War, History Press, 2014, Ill. p.130. 14x10.75 inches.Click for more information
13. The piercing of the German fortified defensive line"https://www.abbottandholder.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/13-Matania-91945.pdf">Click for more information
14. Ugo Matania (1888-1979) ‘Victory Parade in Hyde Park: General Foch salutes dais / King George V and Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, Princess Mary, 1919’. Pen, brush, ink and grey wash. Signed and dated, 1919. Inscribed verso and ‘No.82’. Stamped: ‘The Sphere No.1018. 14x11.5 inches. Click for more information
15. President Woodrow Wilson announcing the birth of the League of Nations.. Pen, brush, ink, grey wash and gouache. Signed. Inscribed verso: ‘Feb.1919. No.50’. Stamped ‘The Sphere no. 996’. 13x10 inches. Click for more information
16. The fate of the German Empire: learning the decision of the Allies. The six delegates listen to the conditions of the Peace Treaty at Versailles. Pen, brush, ink, grey wash and gouache. Signed. Inscribed verso: ‘May, 1919, No 51’. Stamped: ‘The Sphere No.1008’. Illustrated: The Sphere, London, 17th May, 1919, pp.128-9. 13.25x20.25 inches. Click for more information
17. The burial of the Unknown Warrior, Westminster Abbey. Pen, brush, ink, grey wash and gouache. Signed. Inscribed verso: ‘Unknown Warrior, Nov.20 1920’. Stamped: ‘The Sphere No.3273’. Literature: Lucinda Gosling, Goodbye, Old Man: Matania’s Vision of the First World War, History Press, 2014, Ill. p.142. 13.75x20.25 inches. Click for more information
18. Edouardo Matania (1847-1929) The Ruins of Ypres. Pen, brush, ink and grey wash. Signed. Inscribed verso: ‘No.84’. Stamped: ‘The Sphere, No. 1037’. 14x10 inches. Click for more information
MATANIA Fortunino (1881-1963) ‘Stretcher bearers under fire’. Watercolour and gouache painted en grisaille for The Sphere. Signed. Verso: Signed, dated 16th September 1917 and inscribed ‘Sphere/ Front page’. 12x10 inches.
MATANIA Fortunino (1881-1963) First World War: Return from the Line. Pencil, watercolour and gouache. Signed. Dated verso, 1918. Possibly for ‘The Sphere’. 13.25x9.5 inches.