Souscrivez au IVeacuteme Emprunt et le drapeau tricolore aacute Strasbourg annonccedilera au monde le regravegne de la paix de la liberteacute de la justice – Historic Reproduction
(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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Souscrivez au IVeacuteme Emprunt et le drapeau tricolore aacute Strasbourg annonccedilera au monde le regravegne de la paix de la liberteacute de la justice comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few wartime posters carry as much symbolic weight as this one, which places the French tricolor above the cathedral at Strasbourg, a city that had been under German rule since 1871. The artist, Hansi, was the pseudonym of Jean-Jacques Waltz, an Alsatian illustrator whose satirical drawings of German officials made him a target of the German authorities before he fled to France in 1914. Printed in 1918 to promote the French government's fourth war loan, the poster uses the cathedral's Gothic silhouette to suggest that Strasbourg's return to France would bring peace, liberty and justice to the world.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 81 x 60 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Subscribe to the 4th Loan and the [French] tricolor flag at Strasbourg will announce to the world the reign of peace of liberty of justice. Signed: Hansi [pseudonym for Jean-Jacques Waltz]. Same image on: POS - Fr .W35 no. 4. Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1918. Item is no. 85 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AAR · United States. Fuel Administration funder/sponsor. |
| Subjects | Cathédrale de Strasbourg--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Military personnel--French. War bonds & funds--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,824 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 476_Souscrivez_au_IVeacutem_1918 |
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