{"product_id":"antique-1915-frank-brangwyn-wwi-poster-at-neuve-chapelle-original-british-recruitment-lithograph-avenue-press-london-framed-estate","title":"Antique 1915 Frank Brangwyn WWI Poster, At Neuve Chapelle, Original British Recruitment Lithograph, Avenue Press London, Framed Estate","description":"✦ Original 1915 WWI British Recruitment Poster ✦\u003cbr\u003e✦ \"At Neuve Chapelle\" by Sir Frank Brangwyn, R.A. ✦\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rare original First World War recruitment poster designed and \u003cbr\u003elithographed by Sir Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956), one of Britain's most \u003cbr\u003eimportant early-20th-century artists. Printed in 1915 by The Avenue \u003cbr\u003ePress, Ltd., Bouverie St., London. This iconic poster commemorates \u003cbr\u003ethe Battle of Neuve-Chapelle (March 1915), one of the first major \u003cbr\u003eBritish offensives of the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poster bears the powerful caption \"Your Friends Need You. Be A Man\" \u003cbr\u003eand depicts a dramatic battlefield scene rendered in Brangwyn's signature \u003cbr\u003eexpressive lithographic style — a wounded soldier rallying comrades \u003cbr\u003eamid the chaos of artillery and fallen men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e✦ INSTITUTIONAL HOLDINGS — MUSEUM-RECOGNIZED IMAGE ✦\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe same poster is held in the permanent collections of:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.)\u003cbr\u003e- Victoria and Albert Museum (London)\u003cbr\u003e- Smithsonian National Museum of American History\u003cbr\u003e- Worcester Art Museum (Massachusetts)\u003cbr\u003e- Brown University — Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection\u003cbr\u003e- National Museum Wales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an extraordinary opportunity to acquire a museum-grade WWI \u003cbr\u003eposter from a private estate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e✦ PROVENANCE — THE SCHOLAR'S ESTATE COLLECTION ✦\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcquired from the estate of a Pacific Northwest historian — a graduate \u003cbr\u003eof a leading East Coast university — who carefully preserved this \u003cbr\u003eposter as part of his personal historical archive. The original owner \u003cbr\u003eidentified the artist by hand on the reverse backing: \"Sir Frank \u003cbr\u003eBrangwyn, R.A. 1867–1956 (born Bruges, Belgium)\" — confirming the \u003cbr\u003ehistorian's awareness of the piece's significance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is part of an ongoing curated release from the same estate. \u003cbr\u003ePlease follow SWCurated to see other pieces from \"The Scholar's Estate \u003cbr\u003eCollection.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e✦ ABOUT THE ARTIST ✦\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSir Frank Brangwyn, R.A. (1867–1956) was a Welsh-Belgian artist of \u003cbr\u003einternational stature. Born in Bruges and trained in the workshops \u003cbr\u003eof William Morris, he produced over 12,000 works across painting, \u003cbr\u003elithography, etching, stained glass, and mural design. During the \u003cbr\u003eFirst World War, Brangwyn created more than 80 poster designs for \u003cbr\u003eBritish recruitment, war charities, and Belgian relief — most donated \u003cbr\u003efree to the war effort.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis war posters were so powerful that Kaiser Wilhelm II reportedly \u003cbr\u003eplaced a price on his head after seeing his anti-German propaganda. \u003cbr\u003eBrangwyn was knighted in 1941 and remains one of the most collected \u003cbr\u003eBritish poster artists of the 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e✦ THE POSTER — DETAILS ✦\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- ARTIST: Sir Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A. (signed in plate \/ printed credit)\u003cbr\u003e- DATE: 1915\u003cbr\u003e- PRINTER: The Avenue Press, Ltd., Bouverie St., London, England\u003cbr\u003e- TECHNIQUE: Original stone lithograph on paper\u003cbr\u003e- SUBJECT: Battle of Neuve-Chapelle, March 1915 — British recruitment\u003cbr\u003e- PUBLISHED: Printed credits visible at the bottom of the poster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatalogued in standard reference works on WWI posters (Rawls; Rickards).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e✦ DIMENSIONS ✦\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Frame outer dimensions: approximately 30\" × 20\" (76 × 51 cm)\u003cbr\u003e- Sheet size approximately matches the standard \"C-size\" Avenue Press \u003cbr\u003e  Brangwyn format documented by the Library of Congress (75 × 50 cm)\u003cbr\u003e- Depth: ~1\" with frame\u003cbr\u003e- Currently framed under glass in a slim black metal frame\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e✦ CONDITION ✦\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcellent vintage condition consistent with a poster of 110+ years:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Image clear and legible throughout — strong black ink, good contrast\u003cbr\u003e- Original horizontal and vertical fold lines visible (typical of \u003cbr\u003e  posters distributed flat-folded during wartime — these folds are \u003cbr\u003e  characteristic of authentic 1915 issue and are documented in \u003cbr\u003e  museum collections)\u003cbr\u003e- Minor creases in margins\u003cbr\u003e- Paper tone consistent with kraft\/newsprint stock used by Avenue Press\u003cbr\u003e- Currently framed under glass — buyer may choose to retain the frame \u003cbr\u003e  or have the poster professionally re-framed\/linen-backed for \u003cbr\u003e  long-term preservation\u003cbr\u003e- Backing board hand-inscribed with artist attribution by previous \u003cbr\u003e  owner (the historian)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI recommend professional conservation framing with UV-protective glass \u003cbr\u003eand acid-free matting for long-term display. A linen-backed conservation \u003cbr\u003etreatment (offered by specialist poster restorers) can also enhance \u003cbr\u003eboth preservation and resale value.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e✦ SHIPPING \u0026amp; HANDLING ✦\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- This is a large, fragile, framed item requiring careful packaging\u003cbr\u003e- Will be packed by a professional shipping service in a custom \u003cbr\u003e  cardboard box with corner protectors, foam padding, and \"FRAGILE \/ \u003cbr\u003e  GLASS\" markings\u003cbr\u003e- Shipped via UPS Ground or FedEx Ground with full insurance to the \u003cbr\u003e  declared value\u003cbr\u003e- Tracking provided\u003cbr\u003e- Processing time: 5–7 business days (to allow for proper packaging)\u003cbr\u003e- International shipping available — please contact for a quote\u003cbr\u003e- Sold as-is from a smoke-free home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e✦ FROM THE SAME ESTATE ✦\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther pieces from this scholar's estate are available in our shop, \u003cbr\u003eincluding a pair of vintage Japanese Kamakura-bori carved wood \u003cbr\u003eplaques signed by the artist Harada Sōzan, Japanese ukiyo-e reference \u003cbr\u003ebooks, and a vintage MM Kane beaded evening clutch. Please follow \u003cbr\u003eSWCurated for ongoing releases from \"The Scholar's Estate Collection.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e✦ Thank you for visiting SWCurated — where each piece carries its story. ✦","brand":"SW Curated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49026423259388,"sku":"ced_31583306379","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6053\/0940\/files\/il_fullxfull.7956444040_f5nx.jpg?v=1777317420","url":"https:\/\/swcurated.com\/products\/antique-1915-frank-brangwyn-wwi-poster-at-neuve-chapelle-original-british-recruitment-lithograph-avenue-press-london-framed-estate","provider":"SW Curated","version":"1.0","type":"link"}