Prints, advertising; Image of a robed woman, the allegorical figure Britannia, rising from stormy sea waves holding a sword in her outstretched hand; with drowning victims around her in the water and a sinking ship visible in the distance; this British recruitment poster references the sinking of the British ocean liner the Lusitania by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, during World War I. Date supplied by cataloger based on production date in item text. "Printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex. W6764. 25M - 7/15."--text, bottom right margin. "Published by The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London - Poster No. 105"--text, bottom left margin. "B.P."--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 101.76 x 63.5 cm (40 1/16 x 25 in.)
Advertising--Recruiting and enlistment Britannia (Symbolic character)--Pictorial works Drowning--Pictorial works Lusitania (Steamship)--Disasters--1910-1920 Patriotism--Great Britain Ships--Pictorial works World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc) War posters--British--1910-1920. (gmgpc)
Source
Huntington Collection World War I Your Country Calls Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library
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