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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
JOSEPH PENNELL THAT LIBERTY SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH. 1918. 331/4x22 inches. Alco-Gravure, New York. Condition A. "Without question one of the most powerful posters of the entire war." (Theofiles p. 120). In dark shades of sepia a nightmare-scenario of New York City under attack by German forces, with the Statue of Liberty in ruins (think of the final scene in Planet of the Apes), the city in flames and a squadron of German bombers overhead. "The poster's unlikely depiction of an air and submarine attack on New York was designed to bring the war home to a public whose distance from the fighting seemed to necessitate this most forceful sales effort." (Paret p. 75). Several variations of the poster exist, both in size and color (the other one is all orange). Rawls p. 227, Paret 103, American Style 61, Darracott 35, Theofiles 161, Borkan 109.
