Rowland Hilder
Convoy Your Country To Victory

Lithograph
75 x 51 cm

This poster was a British propaganda piece issued during World War II by the National Savings Committee. It was part of the broader campaign to encourage citizens to invest in National Savings Certificates, War Bonds, and Defence Bonds to financially support the war effort. The poster features a convoy of merchant ships sailing under the Union Jack, emphasising the vital role of maritime trade and supply lines in the war effort. Its slogan, ‘convoy your country to victory’, also instills a strong sense of patriotism as it draws a direct link between the public’s purchase of saving bonds and national war victory.

Rowland Hilder was a well known landscape artist and book illustrator. Born in New York state, his English father moved the family to Kent, England in 1915. It was here his natural talent for drawing was noticed by his school. Later Hilder went to study at Goldsmith’s College in London. He was well known as an accomplished watercolourist, particularly in his sensitive handling of the sky and earth. Between 1964 and 1974 he was president of England’s Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.

Condition: Generally very good, couple of short repaired edge tears.

Generally very good, couple of short repaired edge tears.