Aug 06, 2003 - Sale 1975

Sale 1975 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 632
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BRITAIN NEEDS YOU AT ONCE. 1915.
30x20 inches. Spottiswoode, London.
Condition A: minor restoration in margins and corners.
An early recruitment poster featuring St. George battling the dragon in a straightforward alegory of good versus evil (Britain didn't introduce mandatory conscription until 1916). Several different countries used this same motif for their war posters, most notably Austria (in a poster by Maximillian Lenz) and also Russia. Daracott 71, Prescott 66, Rickards 65.