Titanic-mania

April 11 2012

Image of Titanic-mania

Picture: Leeds Museum & Galleries

Here, courtesy of the Public Catalogue Foundation, is Frederick Cayley Robinson's The Outward Bound. Painted in 1912, it shows the Titanic leaving Southampton, and was commissioned after the sinking to commemorate the loss of Wallace Hartley, the violinist who was leader of the band that sank with the ship. 

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