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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · Over There
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Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936) · Committee of Citizens, 1917
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour lithograph Edwin Howland Blashfield drew in 1917, 51 by 51 cm, a square sheet copyrighted by the Committee of Citizens.
Why it matters
The four letters are Rome's, Senatus Populusque Romanus, and here they stand for Italy, at war on the Allied side since 1915. Blashfield painted the murals in the dome of the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress.
What to notice
Italy as a woman in an olive wreath, in profile within a circular border, like a head on a coin.
An ally, struck like an ancient coin.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936)
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Committee of Citizens, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002708890 · POS - US .B59, no. 3 a (B size) [P&P]
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02 on the Commons mirror of the same LoC scan: Public domain (PD-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired).
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