Content note: Falange emblem and raised-arm salute, with a rifle and tools carried by the marchers, in a poster design of the Spanish Civil War. This object is shown as it was published. Why
¡Arriba España! (Falange poster drawing, about 1937)
Watercolour and ink design for a poster: a man in a blue shirt with a raised right arm leads a column of workers, farmers and a woman carrying a child, some holding a rifle, a hammer, a pick, a shovel and a club, beneath the slogan '¡Arriba España!' and the Falange yoke-and-arrows emblem. The tell: ordinary labourers and families are shown marching as one behind a single party sign, so joining looks like what 'the people' already do.
- Date
- 1937
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS (Nationalist Spain); artist and publisher not named on the object
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Francoist Spain
- Leader
- Francisco Franco
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Spanish Civil War
- Techniques
- Plain folksBandwagon
- Leader
- Francisco Franco
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Biblioteca Virtual de la Comunidad de Madrid, via Europeana and Hispana, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark 1.0, as stated by the Biblioteca Virtual de la Comunidad de Madrid ("Obra de dominio público")
Biblioteca Virtual de la Comunidad de Madrid, record 24500 (¡Arriba España!), via Europeana.
Text on the object
¡ARRIBA ESPAÑA!
UP SPAIN! (a Falange rallying cry, roughly "Rise, Spain!")
The only lettering on the sheet; the emblem is the Falange yoke and arrows. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
