Making Sailors: The Gun, from The Great War: Britain's Ideals and Efforts

The vantage point of this print invites the viewer to identify with a group of British sailors as they duck behind the gunner on a destroyer battleship. Brangwyn, along with 17 other British artists, created a series of lithographic prints issued by the Ministry of Information. The Great War: Britain’s Ideals and Efforts sought to patriotically remind the people of Great Britain of the material production necessary for the war effort. Brangwyn documented a young man’s passage into the navy, utilizing a first-person point of view in this image.