The Battle of Britain

L'Heure a Découvert La Machine à Finir la Guerre [L'Heure has Discovered the Machine to End the War]

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Catalogue number
  • Art.IWM PST 2702
Production date
1917
Place made
France
Subject period
Materials
  • medium: lithograph
  • support: paper
Dimensions
  • Support: Height 1590 mm
  • Support: Width 1168 mm
Alternative Names
  • object category: Poster
Creator
Category
posters

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Object description

whole: the image occupies the whole, held within a blue border. The title is integrated and positioned lower left, in red and in blue. The text is integrated and positioned across the bottom, in blue. image: under a darkening sky, a huge, fantastic three-wheeled machine, with a face-like front, fires a lethal beam from a hose attachment. Dead German soldiers lie on the battlefield all around it. text: L'HEURE a découvert La Machine à finir la guerre feuilleton par Gignoux et Dorgelès qui commencera le 27 Mars Henri Montassier Atelier CH. DIDIER. 36 Bd Barbès, PARIS. [L'Heure [The Hour (a journal)] has discovered the machine to end the war. Serial by Gignoux and Dorgelès starting 27 March.]

Label

This First World War poster, while acknowledging the scale of destruction in modern industrialised conflict, offers hope for a successful and speedy conclusion through new technology. A British invention, the ‘tank’ was quickly taken up by the French who produced a number of successful designs, such as the Model 1917 Renault which figured prominently in the Allied offensives of 1918. Montassier's war-winning machine pays little reference to contemporary armoured fighting vehicles, but has more in common with the science fiction machines used by the invading Martians in H G Wells’ ‘The War of the Worlds’ of 1898.

Inscription

République Française 2/HES 10 ENSUS cen.20 SEINE [with a depiction of a woman in robes holding up a pair of scales]

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