Take Up The Sword Of Justice – Vintage Print
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Take Up The Sword Of Justice comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Take Up The Sword Of Justice
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The title *Take Up the Sword of Justice* marks this 1915 image as a moral appeal rather than a plain report of battle. Wartime posters of this kind relied on allegory, with a single symbolic figure standing for a nation's cause and its right to fight. By 1915 the fighting on the Western Front had produced huge casualties, so calls to arms like this one carried more weight than they had in 1914. The pose of the figure and the sword are worth studying, since they show how the artist tried to turn sympathy into action.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 963 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1672_Take_up_the_sword_of_ju_1915 |
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