Aug 05, 2021 - Sale 2577

Sale 2577 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

RICHARD FAYERWEATHER BABCOCK (1887-1954)

JOIN THE NAVY - THE SERVICE FOR FIGHTING MEN. 1917.


39x26 1/4 inches, 99x66 1/2 cm.
Condition B: water stain in lower left corner, into text; creases in margins, text and image. Paper. Framed.

Replete with masculinity and adventure, a sailor is riding bareback on a torpedo. This is an image that may have inspired the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Rawls 72, Theofiles 32, Rickards 161, Borkan p. 23, War Posters 100.