The Red Ploughman
Poster
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This poster was made soon after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Aimed at rallying Russia’s large and predominantly illiterate population, it pledges to do away with the old order, symbolised by the paraphernalia of church, aristocracy and army being ploughed into the ground by a red-shirted peasant. The caption reads: ‘On the wild field amid the ruins of evil Lordship and Capital we shall drive our plough and gather the good harvest of happiness for the whole working people.’
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Red Ploughman |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithography |
| Brief description | Poster, 'The Red Ploughman'; Russia, 1920 |
| Physical description | Landscape format poster printed in colours. A ploughman in red shirt and striped trousers drives his black horse harnessed to a plough from right to left across the image. On the ground beneath their feet are strewn crowns, helmets, sacks of money etc. Behind the ploughman a huge yellow sunburst breaks against a night sky. |
| Production type | Mass produced |
| Object history | Transferred from the British Museum. |
| Production | all inscriptions are in Russian the title above is a translation |
| Summary | This poster was made soon after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Aimed at rallying Russia’s large and predominantly illiterate population, it pledges to do away with the old order, symbolised by the paraphernalia of church, aristocracy and army being ploughed into the ground by a red-shirted peasant. The caption reads: ‘On the wild field amid the ruins of evil Lordship and Capital we shall drive our plough and gather the good harvest of happiness for the whole working people.’ |
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| Other number | 1921-2-10-4 - British Museum number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.727-2000 |
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| Record created | April 23, 2003 |
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