Poster - The barricade Geo Bellows - Public domain lithograph

Print shows several civilians, including children, their hands tied to posts above their heads, being used as a human shield by German soldiers.

Signed in reverse on stone on lower right center.
Signed in pencil on lower right corner: Geo. Bellows.
Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner: No. 2.
Pennell ownership stamp on verso.
Inscribed in pencil below Pennell ownership stamp: 460111.
From Bellows' Atrocities of War series.
Bellows catalogue, 40
American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 48
Purchase; Pennell fund; 1946 July 1; (DLC/PP-1946:111).
Forms part of: Fine print filing series (Library of Congress).