Miss Cavell fusilleacutee par les Allemands agrave Bruxelles le 12 octobre 1915 – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare vintage poster captures Miss Cavell fusilleacutee par les Allemands agrave Bruxelles le 12 octobre 1915 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Miss Cavell fusilleacutee par les Allemands agrave Bruxelles le 12 octobre 1915
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The title names Edith Cavell, the British nurse shot by a German firing squad in Brussels on October 12, 1915, and this color lithograph commemorates her death. Cavell had run a nursing school in occupied Belgium and had helped Allied soldiers and civilians escape to the neutral Netherlands. Her execution caused an outcry across Europe and in the United States, and it became a powerful symbol in Allied war propaganda. The angels in the design, a common motif in wartime memorial art, cast her as a martyr rather than a soldier.
| Created / published | 1915 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 60 x 40 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Miss Cavell executed by the Germans in Brussels Oct. 12 1915. Promotional goal: Fr. J5. 1915. Item is no. 164 a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AIE · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | Cavell Edith 1865-1915--Commemoration. Angels--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,808 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 176_Miss_Cavell_fusilleacut_1915 |
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