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Deutsche Ernte 1915 [German Harvest 1915]

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Catalogue number
  • Art.IWM PST 7218
Production date
1915
Place made
Germany
Subject period
Materials
  • medium: lithograph
  • support: paper
Dimensions
  • Support: Height 326 mm
  • Support: Width 503 mm
  • Mount: Height 371 mm
  • Mount: Width 509 mm
Alternative Names
  • object category: Poster
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posters

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Object description

whole: the image occupies the majority and is held within a narrow black border. The title and text are separate and positioned along the bottom edge, in black gothic script. All set against a white background. image: an ilustration of a rural scene, with a full-length depiction of a German officer standing with a bayonet. He keeps watch over a large group of soldiers from various Allied nations and colonies as they harvest a wheat field using scythes and rakes. Sheaves are stacked onto carts with haymaking forks. Another German soldier leads a line of Allied soldiers in the background. text: Zeichnung von W. A. Wellner. Deutsche Ernte 1915. Unsre Felder zu verheeren, Haben sie marschieren sollen Unter Ähren, ohne Ehren Stehn sie nun auf deutschen Schollen. Und die schuften, wenn auch grollend, Jetzt als Bauern, ohne Waffen, Teil der Kraft, die Böses wollend, Allemal das Gute schaffen... [Drawing by W. A. Wellner. German harvest 1915. Our fields to devastate, they were to march under ears of corn, without honour now they stand on German soil. And the blackguards, even if wrathful, now as farmers, without weapons, part of the force that wishes evil, every time to create good...]

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