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Friends Enemies

Print
ca. 1920-1930 (made)
Artist/Maker
Dmitry Moor (maker)
Place of origin
Russia (made)

General Description: A Russian satirical broadsheet showing friends and enemies of the peasant farmer. With a central image captioned "Sing, swallow, sing, soothe the peasant's heart " and text below explaining how the creatures shown either aid or hinder the farmer Lettered in Cyrillic script with the name of the designer, captions and text

A Russian satirical broadsheet showing friends and enemies of the peasant farmer. With a central image captioned "Sing, swallow, sing, soothe the peasant's heart " and text below explaining how the creatures shown either aid or hinder the farmer Lettered in Cyrillic script with the name of the designer, captions and text.


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleFriends Enemies
Materials and techniques
Colour line block
Brief description
Russian satirical broadsheet showing friends and enemies of the peasant farmer. Soviet Union, 1920s.
Physical description
General Description: A Russian satirical broadsheet showing friends and enemies of the peasant farmer. With a central image captioned "Sing, swallow, sing, soothe the peasant's heart " and text below explaining how the creatures shown either aid or hinder the farmer Lettered in Cyrillic script with the name of the designer, captions and text

A Russian satirical broadsheet showing friends and enemies of the peasant farmer. With a central image captioned "Sing, swallow, sing, soothe the peasant's heart " and text below explaining how the creatures shown either aid or hinder the farmer Lettered in Cyrillic script with the name of the designer, captions and text.
Dimensions
  • Size of sheet height: 35.6cm
  • Size of sheet width: 52cm
Size of sheet 35.6 x 52 cm
Marks and inscriptions
Translation
1. The weasel exterminates the field mouse 2. The tit exterminates the harmful insects 3. Ladybirds eat aphids 4. Common toad kills flies 5. The Starling kills the locust 6. Ichneumon fly kills the caterpillar 7. The owl kills rodents 8. The swallow kills harmful beetles 9. The bat kills butterflies and caterpillers 10. The rook destroys harmful insects 11. Mole cricket kills flies and insects in the earth 12. The skylark kills field slug 13. The Beetle kills ?larva 14. The Trier (machine for clearing the seeds) 1. The harvest mouse harms crops 2. The caterpillar of the [?] in the ground grinds? Corn of bread 3. Aphid destroys sprout of the apple tree, currant and others 4. The green-eyed spoils bread 5. Locust destroys crops 6. [?] destroys [reeds] bread 7. Rats truly destroy 8. Bread weevil destroys bread in barns 9. Cabbage white butterfly harms garden planting 10. Caterpillar destroys vegetables 11. Larva of Cave beetle destroys corn of bread 12. Field slug spoils garden planting 13. Larva of the Mayfly destroys corn plants 14. Priest and kylak are harmful to all peasant farms
Object history
Of the 28 border images, 14 are friends, including a swallow, toad and gleaning machine, and 14 are enemies, including a rat, locust, priest and kulak. The central image shows several `bad' creatures gathered together, including the priest, with the peasant shaking his fist at them.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.382-1988

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Record createdNovember 24, 2008
Record URL
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