Take Up the Sword of Justice

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whole: the image occupies the majority, held within a narrow brown border and a wide green border. The title is separate and positioned across the top, in brown, and set against the green border. image: Justice, personified by a full-length figure of a woman wearing robes and a 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 B.P. PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE, LONDON. POSTER No.111. PRINTED BY DAVID ALLEN AND SONS LD. HARROW, MIDDLESEX. W. 4502. 25M. 6/15

Physical description

Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No.111. A medium version (PST 11856) and a large version (PST 11862) were also produced. Same design as Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Card No.111 and No.110. The figure of Justice depicted in this poster was copied and used in a French poster (see PST 6833). W. 4502.

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Recruitment poster showing the Lusitania sinking to encourage people to join the war effort. Outrage was also felt in the USA as 128 US citizens died in the incident. German submarine warfare was a big factor in persuading the USA to enter the war on the Allied side in 1917.

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The sinking of the British passenger liner RMS Lusitania was one of the most controversial incidents of the First World War. On 1st May 1915 the Lusitania set sail from New York bound for Liverpool, with over 1,900 passengers and crew on board. Six days later a German submarine, the U-20, sank her as she approached southern Ireland. 1,200 lives were lost, including 128 Americans, causing outrage in both Britain and America. In her defence, Germany argued that the Lusitania was carrying supplies of ammunition and also cited American press warnings discouraging travel on Allied ships. Nevertheless President Woodrow Wilson issued an official protest and there were anti-German riots in American cities. Meanwhile British propaganda capitalized on the incident (see PST 11782, PST 11803, PST 11821 and PST 11856), portraying it as an act of German barbarism. Though America remained for the time neutral, the sinking of the liner caused a significant hardening of opinion against Germany, which eventually led to her entry into the First World War, in 1917, on the side of the Allies.

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Creator

Partridge, Bernard (Undefined)
David Allen and Sons Ltd, Harrow, Middlesex (printer)
PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE (publisher/sponsor)

Production date

1915

Place made

Great Britain

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Support: paper

medium: lithograph

Dimensions

Support: Height 743 mm, Width 504 mm

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Art.IWM PST 0409

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Justice, <Bombardier>
PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE
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WW1 British Home Front
Recruitment Campaign 1914-1916, Home Front, UK, First World War
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[105] TAKE UP THE SWORD OF JUSTICE
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Great Britain GB
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sword : American
Scabbard
ship & boiler room
Cloak
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recruiting
commemorative
portrait / personification
Allegory
Propaganda
Atrocities and War Crimes
civilian suffering
Death
events / anniversaries
seascape
shipping
women / women's work
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British Home Front 1914-1918
British Army 1914-1918

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