Prints, advertising; Image of an allegorical winged female figure of victory draped in a French flag flying across a battlefield above dead German soldiers and cannons and leading a cloud of attacking Allied troops including infantrymen with rifles and the flags of countries including Belgium, France, the United States, Japan, and Great Britain; the poster promotes the French war loan campaign during World War I. Date based on year in artist's signature. "Devambez, Imp, Paris."--text, bottom right of image. "M. Richard Gutz 1916"--text, artist's signature in stone, bottom left of image. "Visa No. 13.733"--text, bottom left of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 78.9 x 118.75 cm (31 1/16 x 46 3/4 in.)
Battlefields--Pictorial works Debts, Public--France Flags--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works War casualties--Pictorial works World War, 1914-1918--Finance--France Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc) War posters--French--1910-1920. (gmgpc)
Source
Huntington Collection World War I Your Country Calls Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library
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