[Eagle attacking double-headed Austrian imperial eagle in mid-air over mountains] – Historic Print
![[Eagle attacking double-headed Austrian imperial eagle in mid-air over mountains], 1918 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1f/1f120e0e88bf-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Eagle attacking double-headed Austrian imperial eagle in mid-air over mountains], preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Eagle attacking double-headed Austrian imperial eagle in mid-air over mountains]
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An eagle dives at the double-headed eagle of the Habsburg monarchy above mountain peaks, a clash that stands in for the war between Italy and Austria-Hungary. Printed as a color lithograph in 1918, the poster belongs to a wartime tradition of using birds of prey and national emblems to rally support at home. The Italian front ran through the Alps and Dolomites from 1915 until the armistice of November 1918, so the mountain backdrop points to the terrain where the fighting took place. The record does not name the artist.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 280 x 197 cm. |
| Genre | (color film transparencies) cph 3g12252 3g12253 3g12254 3g12255 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g12252 |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Italy. Eagles--Italy--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,914 × 6,152 px · prints to 16 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 754_Eagle_attacking_doubleh_1918 |
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