A Portrait of Richard Milhous Poster

USA, 1970

38 x 26 in (97 x 66 cm)

ID #FF19C-PK3-A-LZ

"A PORTRAIT OF RICHARD MILHOUS / with apologies to Oscar Wilde and Dorian Gray"

Anti-Nixon, anti-war poster featuring a grotesque caricature of Richard Nixon below a modified version of the prayer "Now I lay me down to sleep", portraying Nixon as praying in regards to his corruption. He kneels surrounded by primarily broken gravestones referencing current politics; for example, one is engraved with a swastika with the text "SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF PEACE IN VIETNAM / STILLBORN JAN. 1969".

Printer: Personality Posters, Inc. Condition: Please note some creasing, particularly on the left side of the poster.

Material: Paper

100-250 1969 agnew anti war caricature grave nixon politics poster propaganda protest republican seventies size-38-x-26 usa vietnam vintage poster war