Prints, advertising; Image of a woman in a long dress and bonnet with a handkerchief sitting in profile in a chair in the style of James Whistler's "Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1" (also known as "Whistler's Mother"); the poster encourages enlistment with the Irish Canadian Rangers during World War I. Date supplied from Moore, C. Propaganda Prints, page 106. "Harris Lithographing Co. Ltd., Toronto."--text, bottom right margin. "Hal Ross / Perrigard / after / Whistler"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom right of image. "Lt. Col. H.J. Trihey - O.C."--text, bottom left of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 89.54 x 57.31 cm (35 1/4 x 22 9/16 in.)
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903. Arrangement in gray and black, no. 1--Pictorial works Advertising--Recruiting and enlistment Mothers--Pictorial works World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Canada World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Canada Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc) War posters--Canadian--1910-1920. (gmgpc)
Source
Huntington Collection World War I Your Country Calls Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library
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