"Print of a fist rising up to meet a tank" [NMLH.2021.150.9]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.2021.150.9

Object Name
Poster

People
Ken Sprague

Events
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia; Soviet Union

Date
1968

Description
An A2 silk-screen print of a fist rising up to meet a tank. Printed in black ink on white paper. This is the eight in a portfolio of anti-military prints by the political cartoonist Ken Sprague. In the preface Sprague indicates that the raised fist is an homage to the protests and solidarity surrounding the Spanish civil war.