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"They shall beat their swords into plowshares"

Poster
1929 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Empire Marketing Board (issuer)
Kerr-Lawson, James (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (printed)

"They shall beat their swords into plowshares" etc. 1 sheet from a five-sheet colour lithograph poster issued for Armistice Day, November 1929. Signed.

Object details

Categories
Posters
Prints
Object type
Poster
Title"They shall beat their swords into plowshares"
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Paper
Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
"They shall beat their swords into plowshares" etc. 1 sheet from five-sheet colour lithograph poster issued for Armistice Day, November 1929. Designed by James Kerr-Lawson and issued by the Empire Marketing Board, Great Britain, 1929.
Physical description
"They shall beat their swords into plowshares" etc. 1 sheet from a five-sheet colour lithograph poster issued for Armistice Day, November 1929. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 230in (Note: entire poster)
  • Width: 45.75in (Note: entire poster)
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933
Credit line
Given by the Empire Marketing Board
Subjects depicted
Peace
Commemoration
Quotations (Texts)
First World War
Armistice Day
Bibliographic references
  • Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.447:5-1932

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
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