The Battle of Britain

Your Britain - Fight for it Now

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Catalogue number
  • Art.IWM PST 3640
Production date
1942
Place made
Great Britain
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Materials
  • medium: lithograph
  • support: paper
Dimensions
  • Support: Height 508 mm
  • Support: Width 760 mm
Alternative Names
  • object category: Poster
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posters

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Object description

whole: the image occupies the whole. The title is integrated and positioned across the top edge and along the upper left edge, in black and in green. image: an idyllic view of Salisbury Catherdral seen from the opposite bank of the River Nadder and framed by trees. text: your BRITAIN . fight for it now FRANK NEWBOULD THE BAYNARD PRESS ISSUED BY A.B.C.A DESIGNED BY P.R.2. 73

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From the famous series of four posters by Newbould. An example of how an inter-war travel poster style was used unchanged during the war to arouse patriotic feelings for an idealised pastoral Britain, defined by the landscape of southern England. Newbould was a noted designer of travel posters. In 1942 he joined the War Office as an assistant designer to Abram Games. In this poster Newbould takes inspiration from John Constable's paintings of Salisbury Cathedral over a century earlier. It is particularly reminiscent of Constable's "Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds" (1823) with the trees framing the huge cathedral. The laden hay cart situated lower right is a further reference to Constable.

 

The famous series of four posters are an example of how an inter-war travel poster style was used unchanged during the war to arouse patriotic feelings for an idealised pastoral Britain, defined by the landscape of southern England. [Caption also refers to IWM:PST 2802, 3641 and 3642]

Physical description

P.R.2. 73. One of a series produced by the War Office, all bearing the same slogan (see PST 3641, PST 8915 and PST 14887).

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