"They shall beat their swords into plowshares"

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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.

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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 created	June 8, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O240344/they-shall-beat-their-swords-poster-kerr-lawson-james/

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