The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, WW1
The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, originally published in the 1914 Christmas number of The Graphic. Depicting a dead soldier on a battlefield with an ethereal image of Christ on the cross shining down on him, it was one of the most popular images of the war. Stephen Paget observed in The Cornhill Magazine that this Graphic cover "has turned railway bookstalls into wayside shrines the one and only picture of the war, up to now, which says what most needs to be said on canvas"
Picture No
10957299
Media ID
46869966
Size
3523px x 5868px
(3.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Painting by James Clark originally published by The Graphic - commemorative colour print
Date
1914
