Place | Europe: United Kingdom |
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Accession Number | ARTV00093 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | sheet: 75.5 x 51 cm; image: 73 x 48 cm |
Object type | Poster |
Physical description | chromolithograph on paper |
Maker |
Lumley, Savile Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Johnson, Riddle and Company |
Date made | 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?
Description
Depicts a father sitting in an armchair with a look of concern across his face. His son plays with toys soldiers below him on the carpet; while his daughter sits on his knee, pointing to a page in her book, with a questioning look she glances at her father. Arguably the most remembered British First World War recruiting poster. It was recorded as a favourite with many soldiers, who displayed it, complete with appropriate answers, on the walls of their dugouts. Australia had its equivalent - Harry J Weston's poster incorporated a woman before a tattered Australian flag 'Were YOU there then?'
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