German soldiers in World War II representing germs invading a wound, British soldiers representing white corpuscles resisting and capturing them. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1943.

  • Mendoza, Philip.
Date:
[1941?]
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680213i
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German soldiers in World War II representing germs invading a wound, British soldiers representing white corpuscles resisting and capturing them. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1943. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The British soldiers wear costumes like those of hussars, but are said in the lettering to be the Home Guard

Publication/Creation

[London] : Issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service, [1941?] ([Place of manufacture not identified] : Loxley Bros. Ltd.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 76 x 51 cm

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Lettering

The wound is a breach in your defences ... The antiseptic represents munitions, ordnance etc. ... The dressing covers the breach ... Who would be loyal to his country must be loyal to himself. Get first aid treatment for all wounds however slight. Issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and produced by the Industrial Accident Prevention Department of the N.S.F.A., 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.1. Mendoza Bears number: ML/15 Bears device: triangle with cogwheels

Creator/production credits

"N.S.F.A." assumed to stand for National "Safety First" Association, a precursor of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

References note

Not in: Summary catalogue of British posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Haslemere 1990 (which states on p. 60 that "Mendoza" was a pseudonym)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 680213i

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