Crédit Lyonnais. Emprunt National 1920. Terre de France – Antique Wall Art
![Crédit Lyonnais. Emprunt National 1920. Terre de France, Paris : Imp. Devambez, [1920] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fb/fb7ba30ef924-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: Crédit Lyonnais. Emprunt National 1920. Terre de France, 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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Crédit Lyonnais. Emprunt National 1920. Terre de France
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This color lithograph by Abel Faivre pairs a plowing scene with rows of crosses, the grave markers of the battlefields. It was issued for the 1920 National Loan, a French government bond drive to fund postwar reconstruction, and the Crédit Lyonnais bank was among the institutions that sold the bonds. The poster's title, *Terre de France* ("French Soil"), makes the appeal explicit: investing in the loan meant helping to bring cultivation back to land that the war had scarred. Faivre was a well-known caricaturist and poster artist, and the work was printed by Devambez in Paris.
| Created / published | Paris : Imp. Devambez, [1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 81 x 120 cm. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1910-1920.War posters French 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Crédit Lyonnais. The 1920 National Loan. French soil. Signed: Abel Faivre. Another issue: POS - Fr .F35, no. 1 (same image; 158 x 117 cm.). Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1920. Item is no. 28 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AAR |
| Subjects | Ploughing--1910-1920. Crosses--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,479 × 1,500 px · prints to 8 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-214201 |
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