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Sir David Low, 1891–1963, New Zealand, We Won't Fight Anybody, undated
- Title:
- We Won't Fight Anybody
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and black ink, black wash, blue chalk, white gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 1/2 × 20 11/16 inches (34.3 × 52.5 cm), Image: 12 × 19 1/16 inches (30.5 × 48.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "41"; lower left: "1355"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "2-12-36 | 1355"
Lettered in black ink, upper right: " 100 per cent PACIFISM | WE WON'T FIGHT | ANYBODY", upper right "-AND THAT 'ANYBODY' INCLUDES US, PAL."; in white gouache and blue crayon, center left: "LANSBURY | HUXLEY| SHEPPARD"; center right :" THE OPPRESSOR | OF | THE WEAK.", lower right:" THE DESTROYER | OF | THE PEACE";
Signed in brush and black ink, lower left: "LOW"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles and E. Jennifer Monaghan
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B1986.32.3
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature | historical subject | World War 1939-1945
- Associated People:
- Sheppard, Hugh Richard Lawrie "Dick" (1880–1937) British Anglican priest, Dean of Canterbury and Christian pacifist
Lansbury, George, PC (1859–1940) British politician and social reformer
Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894–1963) British writer and philosopher - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2683
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