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Description: | imperfecly impressed DS 109 25
obverse design : Death, in the form of an enormous skeleton, kneeling facing right, holding a handkerchief in his raised
left hand and looking up at four Zeppelins which are dropping bombs on a busy industrial complex
obverse text : ".DER.BRITENSCHRECK."
reverse design : ornamental wavy-line and beaded edge which surrounds six lines of embossed text. The date is equally divided by a
vertically positioned aerial bomb
reverse text : "AN LORD.CURZON DEN DEUTSCHEN-HASSER 1916"
In this bizarre 1916 piece, one of a series of satirical medallions by Eberbach collectively titled 'The Dance of
Death', the artist makes prominent use of the skeleton as the personification of Death, in order to commemorate the German Zeppelin air
offensive against a doomed and ever-threatened Britain. The obverse text is translated as 'Britain's terror' and the reverse as 'To Lord
Curzon the Germanophobe'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Death satirical George Nathaniel Air Operations & Zeppelin Offensive against Britain & 1914 = 1916 Curzon First World War Aircraft Accidents | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Eberbach, Walther | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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