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- Title:
- Recruits
- Date:
- 1915
- Materials & Techniques:
- Lithograph on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 7/8 x 25 13/16 inches (50.5 x 65.6 cm), Image: 14 1/8 x 16 11/16 inches (35.9 x 42.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "23/5"; inscribed in graphite in artist's hand, lower right below image (after signature): "imp"; inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Recruits."
Watermarked, upper center: "FJH" (text upside down); watermarked, center right: image of a unicorn (oriented vertically downwards)
Signed in graphite, lower center below image: "John Copley imp"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1987.21.14
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- armed forces | army | crowd | dark | drafts | formal | hats | line | men | military art | monochrome | queue | recruits | sacrifice | shadows | soldiers | solemn | suits | ties | war | World War, 1914-1918 | youth
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2721
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Doomed Youth The Poetry and the Pity of World War I (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
John Copley 1875-1950 (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-06 - 1990-04-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
John Copley, John Copley : 1875-1950, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, pp. 4, 8, 14, no. 14, NJ18 .C7492 C66 1990 (YCBA) [YCBA]