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Your King & Country Need You to Maintain the Honour and Glory of the British Empire. A Wee “Scrap o’ Paper” is Britain’s Bond.

Lawson Wood (1878 - 1957)

Poster - lithograph

1914

Image of Your King & Country Need You to Maintain the Honour and Glory of the British Empire. A Wee “Scrap o’ Paper” is Britain’s Bond.

About the work

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Ministry of Defence, Main Building, Whitehall
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Places

Belgium, Bruges

Subjects

WW1 art, military uniform, kilt, tunic, cap, sporran, webbing, water-bottle, propaganda, bayonet, rifle (military), soldier, World War I, street

Materials & Techniques

poster (as object name), lithograph
Details

Artist

Lawson Wood (1878 - 1957)

Title

Your King & Country Need You to Maintain the Honour and Glory of the British Empire. A Wee “Scrap o’ Paper” is Britain’s Bond.

Date

1914

Medium

Poster - lithograph

Dimensions

height: 74.50 cm, width: 50.00 cm

Acquisition

Presented by Peter MacNamara, December 2013

Provenance

T. Peter MacNamara 1973 (given to him by a student)

GAC number

18584