Description
British recruiting poster produced by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee during the first half of the war. The poster employs both words and images to create meaning, interspersing symbols amongst the words. The text, printed in white on a brown ink background, along with the prominent symbols of King George V and a map of Great Britain, reads: 'Surely you will fight for your [portrait of King George] and [map of Great Britain]. Come along boys before it is too late.' The map of Great Britain is in red, in the style of maps of that era which depicted areas of the globe dominated by Great Britain in red or pink. A red border surrounds the entirety of the poster.
Details
Accession Number
ARTV05304
Publisher
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
Printer
Jas. Truscott & Son
Measurement
sheet: 73 x 50.2 cm
Medium
lithograph on paper
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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