Title: Freiheit der Meere Title Vads Collection: Imperial War Museum: Posters of Conflict - The Visual Culture of Public Information and Counter Information

• Main Author: Artist: Unknown
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Queensland; Tonga; Kap; Bombay; Colombo; Archangelsk
• Online Access: http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=26164

Concept: allegory, propaganda, cartography, animals, colonies Description: whole: the image occupies the majority, held within a narrow black border. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in black. The main text is separate and placed in the lower quarter, also in black. Further text is integrated and occupies the majority, in black, and the upper right, in red. All set against a white background. image: a map of the world, with Great Britain depicted as an octopus whose tentacles reach out over the world to grab colonies. text: FREIHEIT DER MEERE. ENGLAND DER BLUTSAUGER DER WELT. 1609 Bermudas 1623 Neu-Fundland 1650 S. Helena um 1800 Kap der guten Hoffnung 1659 Jamaica 1696 Kalkutta 1704 Gibraltar 1788 Sidney 1796 Colombo 1796 Guyana 1800 Malta 1769 Bombay 1824 Singapore 1833 Neu-Seeland 1839 Falkland Inseln 1842 Hongkong 1848 Vancouver 1854 Aden 1859 Queensland 1878 Cypern 1882 Suez 1886 Neu-Guinea 1890 Sansibar 1904 Tonga Inseln 1914 Calais 1917 Archangelsk 1917 Wladiwostok Object: map