2010.54.6484
(58.42 cm HIGH x 44.45 cm WIDE)
Poster has text and images bounded by a border of two thin lines one is red at top and changes to blue at bottom the other is blue at top and green at bottom. At top the border has small semicircular extension; this area has three small drawings of Rich "Uncle" Pennybags the mascot of the popular board game Monopoly. The poster is printed overall with a grid defined by thin grey-green lines, some of the squares and areas of the grid are colored tan. The upper right corner has a stylized image of a male figure wearing only his underpants holding a large rifle with a bayonet while walking, in brown. The poster has stylized text overall from top to bottom it changes in color from red to purple and reads: " 'Let Us Reflect What Must Be The / State Of Things / When men Are Forced / to Caress And Destroy / At The Same time; / When They are Born / enemies by Duty and / Knaves By Interest / it Will Perhaps be / Said That / Society is So Formed That every / man Gains by Serving The / Rest. / That would Be All Very / Well, if He did not Gain / Still more By injuring / them' / Jean-Jaques Rousseau". Grid and text are interspersed with small images depicting the man with the rifle, some from different angles and in different colors as well as several images of human skulls and a human skeleton. The bottom edge of the poster has a row of small representations of the man with the rifle seen from various angles, in green, black, and blue.
