Place | Oceania: Australia |
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Accession Number | ARTV00818 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | sheet: 57 x 44.8 cm; Framed: 533 mm x 712 mm |
Object type | Poster |
Physical description | chromolithograph on paper |
Maker |
Weston, Harry J Unknown W. A. Gullick, Government Printers |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney |
Date made | 1916 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
"Were you there then?"
Description
Australian First World War recruitment poster printed in 1916 most likely referencing the Gallipoli Campaign. It features a painting of a woman in a white dress standing in front of a tattered Australian flag against a yellow background. She is pointing to it with her left hand as if asking the viewer if they were there when the flag was damaged. It appeals to the guilt of the viewer that they had not enlisted to help defend Australia at Gallipoli and to their sense of patriotic duty. The image is in the upper half with the text beneath both set against a red background.