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Description: | Concept: recruiting, commemorative, portrait / personification, allegory, propaganda, atrocities / war crimes, civilian suffering, death, events / anniversaries, seascape, shipping, women / womens work Description: whole: the image occupies the majority, held within a narrow dark brown border, a wide green border, and a narrow white border. The title is separate and positioned across the top, in dark brown, and set against the green border. image: Justice, personified by a full-length figure of a woman wearing robes and a crimson cloak, holds a sword, in its scabbard, in her extended right hand. She stands above the sea in which drowning figures are visible. In the background right, the four funneled ocean liner, RMS Lusitania, sinks. text: TAKE UP THE SWORD OF JUSTICE PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE, LONDON - CARD No.111. PRINTED BY DAVID ALLEN AND SONS LD. HARROW, MIDDLESEX - W. 4502/490. 35M. 6/15 Object: sword, scabbard, ship, cloak | Subjects: | poster showcard | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Partridge, Bernard (Sir) Printer: David Allen and Sons Ltd, Harrow, Middlesex Publisher/Sponsor: Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Associated Person: Justice | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2942... | Go to resource |
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