La Preghiera di Roosevelt

Italy, c. 1944

28 x 49 in (71 x 124 cm)

ID #FF12E-PK11-05CB

This Italian poster, entitled "La Preghiera di Roosevelt" or "Roosevelt's Prayer," includes many smaller texts, political cartoons and caricatures, with a large caricature of Roosevelt in the center, positioned in prayer. A soldier at the top left holds a big bag labeled "World Gold"; a man on the right side is tied up by a soldier, bound by ties that read "opinions," "economic slavery," "captivity in the sea," alongside text that reads, "we fight a holy crusade to liberate oppressed peoples and for justice to triumph"; in the top left, a soldier holding an American flag climbs on and grips the entire globe.

Text along the bottom of the poster, though cut off, reads "Incredible... prayer composed by Roosevelt and broadcast by him and all "allied" radio stations the 7th of June, 1944.

Condition: Good, some small tearing around edges due to age.

500-1000 America Italy original poster political cartoon politics poster postwar Roosevelt size-28-x-49 vintage