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Accession Number | ARTV06333 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: COL. ; 114 X 80CM. |
Object type | Poster |
Physical description | chromolithograph on paper |
Maker |
Devambez Imprimerie Jonas, Lucien-Hector PARIS : COMPAGNIE ALGERIENNE, [N.D.] (PARIS : DEVAMBEZ) |
Place made | France: Paris |
Date made | 1918 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright unknown |
Companie Algerienne, souscrire, c'est hater son retour avec la victoire [Compagnie Algérienne. To subscribe to [the loan] means victory, which will hasten his homecoming]
Description
An Algerian soldier embraces his wife holds their child's hand in her right hand, with a crowd of people and a donkey in the background. The child holds onto a toy cannon which symbolises his childhood ambitions.
This First World War poster acknowledges the colonial contribution paid by Algeria to France during the war.