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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. A five-sheet colour lithograph poster issued for Armistice Day, November 1929. Signed.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
Title"They shall beat their swords into plowshares"
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Colour Lithography
Brief description
"They shall beat their swords into plowshares" etc. A 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. A five-sheet colour lithograph poster issued for Armistice Day, November 1929. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Overall height: 574cm
  • Overall width: 96.5cm
  • Sheet and backing height: 107cm (Note: BB1 - 'They shall beat their swords into ploughshares;, BB3 'into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift'; BB5 'nation, neither shall they learn war any more')
  • Sheet and backing width: 159cm (Note: BB1 - 'They shall beat their swords into ploughshares;, BB3 'into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift'; BB5 'nation, neither shall they learn war any more')
  • Sheet and backing height: 107cm (Note: BB2 'And their spears'; BB4 'a sword against')
  • Sheet and backing width: 70cm (Note: BB2 'And their spears'; BB4 'a sword against')
Measurements taken from: 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
Marks and inscriptions
Signed.
Subjects depicted
Peace
Commemoration
Quotations (Texts)
Armistice Day
First World War
Literary referenceQuote taken from <u>The Bible</u>, Isaiah 2:4.
Associated object
E.447-1932 (Duplicate)
Bibliographic reference
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
Other number
24/A5 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3477-1931

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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