Description

Signed original lithograph.

Printed by Avenue Press, printed in a very small edition of 10 on Japon paper, The Avenue Press noted that this poster was very special because of the small number that were produced and the stone had been erased so that no further copies could be made.

De Bijser, who wrote on this piece in 1955 dated the work 1916.

Depicting refugees leaving a town destroyed during the war, with a swarm of people processing right. An eagle s head rises through the dark sky and the shape of the sword of Damocles points down at the struggling masses.

Although Brangwyn did not normally indulge in overt symbolism, perhaps he was suggesting that the eagle (Germany) considered itse;f all powerful, but that tragedy was only a hair s breath away.