IDENTIFIERS
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id:	239815
accession number:	P.14925-R(1)

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 9 January 2020
updated:	Thursday 28 April 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A group of fishermen in a small boat at sea recoil from a large octopus which they have caught in their net. The motif of the octopus (which appeared on propaganda maps of the nineteenth century) represents the inhuman spread of evil, its tentacles grasping for land and power.
title:	portfolio

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From the printed Annual Report, 1919: 'A collection of sixty-six large lithographic prints by Muirhead Bone, Eric Kennington, George Clausen, R.A., Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., C.R.W. Nevinson, William Rothenstein, Charles Pears, Claude Shepperson, A.S. Hartrick, and other artists, illustrating The Great War:  Britain's Efforts and Ideals, have been received from the Ministry of Information, under whose auspices these splendid lithographs were made.'


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Given by the Ministry of Information, 1919

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/239815





TECHNIQUES
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lithography

CATEGORIES
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category: portfolio
category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1917 - 1917
creation date earliest:	1917
creation date latest:	1917
culture:	20th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Brangwyn, Frank
maker: Ministry of Information
maker: Brangwyn, Frank