[Cartoon showing D-Day invasion of France by British troops in a parody of the Bayeux Tapestry] / Rea Irvin. – Antique Print
![[Cartoon showing D-Day invasion of France by British troops in a parody of the Bayeux Tapestry] / Rea Irvin., [1944] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b3/b3eebf970aea-L.webp)
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[Cartoon showing D-Day invasion of France by British troops in a parody of the Bayeux Tapestry] / Rea Irvin.
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Rea Irvin turned the tables on history in this 1944 drawing, which borrows the look of the Bayeux Tapestry to show British troops invading France. The medieval embroidery records the Norman conquest of England in 1066, so a crossing of the Channel in the opposite direction gives the parody its irony. The cover ran in The New Yorker on July 15, 1944, weeks after the Allied landings in Normandy, when the campaign there dominated news of the war in Europe. Irvin's imitation of the tapestry's stiff, narrative style makes the joke work at a glance.
| Created / published | [1944] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink and watercolor. |
| Genre | Editorial cartoons 1940-1950.Drawings 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Published as cover of The New Yorker, July 15, 1944. Exhibited: Churchill and the Great Republic, Library of Congress, 2004, and other venues, 2004-2005. |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns & battles--France--Normandy. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,998 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225107 |
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