Will you make a fourth? / Alex. Thom & Co., Ltd., Dublin. – Antique Wall Art
![Will you make a fourth? / Alex. Thom & Co., Ltd., Dublin., Dublin : Department of Recruiting for Ireland, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2a/2ac584e7419a-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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Few recruiting posters from this campaign rely on a card table, but this one asks the viewer to join a game that needs one more player, under the question "Will you make a fourth?" The Department of Recruiting for Ireland issued it around 1915, when Britain was pressing for volunteers as the war dragged on without a clear end. Alex. Thom & Co., a major Dublin printing firm, produced the chromolithograph. Its relaxed, domestic scene of soldiers at cards reflects a common recruiting strategy: presenting enlistment as companionship and ordinary good sense rather than as a call to battle.
| Created / published | Dublin : Department of Recruiting for Ireland, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 76 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters Irish 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Recruiting & enlistment--Ireland--1910-1920. Soldiers--Irish--1910-1920. Military life--Irish--1910-1920. Card games--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,046 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 464_Will_you_make_a_fourth_1915 |
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