Don't stand looking at this Accession Number: ARTV05668

Description

British First World War recruitment poster depicts silhouetted soldiers going into action - the text calls for viewers to help them, rather than be content to merely look at the poster. The brown silhouetted figures contrast dramatically against the light background, while the title and remaining text, which reads 'GO AND HELP!', runs across the bottom of the work. This may be a work by British silhouette artist Harry Oakley, who produced numerous posters for the war effort.

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Accession Number
ARTV05668
Publisher
Unknown
Artist
Unknown
Classification
Art
Object Type
Poster
Measurement
Overall: 64 cm x 96.8 cm
Medium
chromolithograph on paper
Date Made
1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Transferred from the AWM Research Centre 1979
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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