Fortunino Matania, J. Bruce Ismay Before the British Titanic Inquiry, Double-Page Spread Illustration

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Item Identification
1. Model number: YY-3537 – Marooned
Description
1. Features “J. Bruce Ismay Before the British Titanic Inquiry”, which took up a double-page spread of the popular illustrated news journal, The Sphere.
2. Depicts Fortunino Matania’s portrayal of Ismay as an outcast marooned on an island, cut off from the rest of mankind by a sea of facts.
3. Shows Ismay as a figure whose very simplicity complicates matters.
4. Illustrates the Drill Hall as a forest of shining pates, white collars and frock coats – all seen from the back – conferring, scribbling, and straining to hear.
5. Represents Conrad’s British Board of Trade, talking “its dear old bald head” out for a moment from under its wing.