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The Posters That Went to War · Before the Great War
A Toast to Kultur
Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956) · The Century Company, New York, Barron Collier Series of Patriotic Cartoons, 1916
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 of a Louis Raemaekers cartoon drawn for The Century Magazine, issued by the Century Company of New York in 1916 in the Barron Collier Series of Patriotic Cartoons, 27 by 53 cm.
Why it matters
The Barron Collier series carried Raemaekers's cartoons to American viewers while the country was still neutral. He drew for the Dutch paper De Telegraaf, and his anti-German drawings made his name in the war.
What to notice
A skeleton drinking from a goblet of blood, the whole cartoon carried by a single figure.
Death, drinking the health of an empire.
Provenance
- School
- The Patriotic Print before 1917 (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956)
- Campaign
- Remember Belgium
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- The Century Company, New York, Barron Collier Series of Patriotic Cartoons, 1916
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2004666228 · POS - Neth .R34, no. 8 (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-Layout, PD-US-expired-text, PD-old-70-1923). Louis Raemaekers died in 1956; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2027. Public domain in the US by publication before 1931; legal sign-off owed before any EU or UK order (the Dudovich precedent).
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