Place | Europe: United Kingdom |
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Accession Number | ARTV00305 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 42 x 43.2 cm |
Object type | Poster |
Physical description | lithograph and letterpress on paper |
Maker |
G.K Unknown Unknown |
Place made | United Kingdom |
Date made | c.1916 -1917 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
The War of Munitions, How Great Britain has mobilised her industries.
British First World War poster issued to illustrate the success of industrial mobilisation. The title is separate and positioned across the top, in black and red. Fourteen separate images make up the poster. The text is partially integrated and positioned across the majority, in black and in red. All set against a white background. The images are from left to right (printed in alternate blocks of black and red colour) a worker, two contrastingly sized machine guns, an explosion, a female munitions worker, two contrastingly sized hand grenades, an oversize worker and civilian standing next to a Technical College, two contrastingly sized infantrymen, two contrastingly sized factories, a pair of scales with artillery shells on one side and a 10,000 ton weight on the other, three artillery shells, an artillery gun, and an oversize sailor seated on a plank which is supported by eight workers. The two central images are a depiction of workers, in a shipyard and a munitions factory setting.
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