This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $80 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.
What Europe tolerates or protects, what your children can expect.
Published by the Minister de Propaganda.
Rare Spanish Republican poster using the image of a dead child with morgue identification tags to motivate the population of Madrid to resist Nationalist forces and Franco. Behind the child,is photomontagued a squadron of airplanes in the sky, indiscriminately bombing cities killing numerous civilians particularly children. demonizing Franco, the Nationalists, and the support they received from fascist Germany and Italy.
Madrid was the center of the conflict, with Franco and his troops coming close to conquering the city in 1937. In an extreme assault between November 15 and 20, Nationalist troops came closer to Madrid but were repelled by Republican fighters. In response, Franco tried to break the city's morale with nightly aerial bombardment, dropping thousands of bombs killing unknown numbers of civilians.