The Swiss National Day - 1st August
1st August 1915 - The Swiss National Day - celebrating the founding of the Swiss Confederacy. Painting by Henri van Muyden (1860-1936). This painting shows Helvetia, the female national personification of Switzerland, leading cold and poor refugees to security and safety within the Swiss borders during the first year of WW1
Picture No
12152448
Media ID
45721192
Size
5289px x 3372px
(8.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Henri van Muyden (1860-1936) painting reproduced on a postcard
Date
1915
