Britain's Call to Arms, Original British WWI Homefront Poster
- 1914
- Sir Frank Brangwyn
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59 x 39 1/2 inches ~ (149 x 99 cm)$2,250
- Unbacked
This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $350 and take approximately 6-8 weeks.
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself. Backing is what we recommend for framing, and for any poster needing restoration.
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Rare WWI poster printed in black with a subtle coloring in red. A standing group of distressed looking man and woman holding a baby; a gesturing soldier and a further figure partially obscured behind them, below them dead or dying figures to the right and background, ruined buildings and more distressed figures.
From the V&A When the First World War began in 1914, the British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (PRC) commissioned posters to encourage men to enlist in the armed forces. Frank Pick, the commercial manager of the Underground Electric Railways who subsequently gained a historic reputation for setting high standards in advertising graphics, refused to hang the PRC's posters in his stations because of their poor design. Instead he commissioned Frank Brangwyn and Gerald Spencer Pryse. This design by Brangwyn was considered too horrific by the War Office and it asked that the poster be withdrawn. However, it drew such huge numbers of recruits that the War Office relented.
