Propaganda Poster India Clergy Working Mens Educational Unio...

Propaganda Poster India Clergy Working Mens Educational Union. Original antique educational canvas wall banner capturing social and religious history in colonial India, depicting a native clergyman on horseback being warmly received by a gathering of villagers, with a serene rural backdrop of palm trees and traditional dwellings on the right. Issued by the Working Men's Educational Union from their headquarters at 25 King William St, Trafalgar Square, London. The Working Men's Educational Union was a 19th-century British philanthropic society founded in London to elevate the working classes physically, intellectually, morally, and religiously through popular scientific and literary lectures supported by reusable, large-scale educational diagrams printed on cotton. Horizontal. Large size. Good condition, folds, creasing, staining, printed on cloth, hand coloured, with metal ringlets in corners. Country of issue: UK, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 88x118, year of printing: 1850s.