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:
- Lansbury, George, PC (1859–1940) British politician and social reformer
Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894–1963) British writer and philosopher
Sheppard, Hugh Richard Lawrie "Dick" (1880–1937) British Anglican priest, Dean of Canterbury and Christian pacifist - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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