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Forward to Victory, restored British WWII Royal Navy poster by Rowland Hilder: battleships in line firing a broadside under a watercolour sky
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Forward to Victory — Paper Print

Price range: $49.00 through $179.00

A British Second World War poster, restored: Rowland Hilder’s Royal Navy battleships in line, the leader firing a broadside under a sweeping watercolour sky.

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Unframed or framed, printed to order in the USA.

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Made to order. All sales final. Replacements or refunds only for damaged, faulty or incorrect prints reported within 7 days. Returns policy

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  • Free Standard shipping to the US
  • Printed to order in the USA, paper or framed
  • Quality promise: damaged, faulty or incorrect prints replaced if reported within 7 days (details)
Paper & printing

Giclée print on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper: a smooth, natural-white fine-art stock with no glare, so the restored colours read true under any light.

Each print has a slim white border and is supplied unframed, ready for a standard frame or hanging clips.

Shipping & returns

Every print is made to order. Standard shipping to the US is free; Express is available at checkout. You will get tracking details by email when your print is on its way.

Because each print is custom-made, all sales are final and we do not accept change-of-mind returns. If your print arrives damaged, has a production fault or is the wrong item, tell us within 7 days of delivery with photos and we will send a free replacement.

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Which size should I choose?

11.7 × 16.5 in suits a desk, shelf or gallery wall. 20 × 28 in works above a desk, console or bed. 23.4 × 33.1 in is a statement piece above a sofa or in a hallway.

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Framing

Framed prints come in a solid wood, satin-finish frame in black, white or natural wood, glazed with shatterproof acrylic. The print is the same 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper as our unframed editions.

Framed artwork sizes are 12 × 17 in, 20 × 28 in and 23 × 33 in (the frame adds a little to each side). Every frame is made to order in the USA and arrives with a hook fitted, ready to hang.

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Restoration

Before & after

Drag the divider to compare the archival source scan with our restored edition. Tears, stains, fading and paper damage were repaired by hand while keeping the original artwork, lettering and colors true to the period.

Your print is made from the restored edition on the right.

Forward to Victory — Paper Print restored edition
Forward to Victory — Paper Print archival source
Before After

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Each size is shown to scale on the same wall. Prints are unframed and made to order.

Description

The Forward to Victory poster

Forward to Victory is a British poster from the Second World War, painted by Rowland Hilder for the Ministry of Information. A line of Royal Navy battleships steams out of the haze, the leading ship firing her big guns in a cloud of brown smoke, the White Ensign flying from her mast. Above them Hilder paints a loose, luminous watercolour sky. The title sits beneath in plain black capitals, the house style of the Ministry’s Forward to Victory series, which also featured the Army and the Royal Air Force.

Hilder (1905 to 1993) was born in New York and became one of Britain’s best-loved painters of the sea and the English countryside. During the war he served as an army camouflage officer and worked with the Ministry of Information. The poster is undated; the series dates from the early years of the war, around 1940.

This is a British poster, part of our small collection of posters from America’s wartime allies.

Read the full history of the poster and the Forward to Victory series.

Restored edition

Restored from a scan of an original print. The yellowed paper was cleaned back to white and the faded blues of the sky and sea brought back, with stains and wear removed. Hilder’s signature along the top edge is kept. Drag the before and after slider below to compare.

Sizes and options

  • Paper print: 11.7 × 16.5 in, 20 × 28 in or 23.4 × 33.1 in
  • Framed print: 12 × 17 in, 20 × 28 in or 23 × 33 in, in a black, white or natural wood frame, ready to hang

Printed to order in the USA on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper. Free Standard shipping to the US. Compare the print sizes.

More naval posters

See Stevan Dohanos’s Loose Talk Can Cost Lives, a torpedoed freighter from the Battle of the Atlantic, or L. W. Bentley’s Setting the Course to Victory for the U.S. Coast Guard.

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