Emprunt national (National loan)

Place Europe: France
Accession Number ARTV00088
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 121.2 x 80.8 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description colour lithograph on paper
Maker Unknown
National Discount Bank of Paris
Champenois, F
Place made France: Paris
Date made 1920
Conflict Period 1920-1929
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

battlefield, tree planting ceremony; poster depicting a young woman with a rosette in her hair, most probably intended to be Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic, planting a tree over a grave on a battlefield and using a discarded sword as a stake, other war graves in the background, poster seeks subscribers to the national loan