1-157-111 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

'Justice to Dreyfus', 1898. Cartoon of the French novelist Emile Zola (1840-1902) while he was taking refuge in England after being sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the campaign to obtain justice for Alfred Dreyfus (c1859-1935). Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish extraction had been wrongly convicted of treason for supplying documents to the Germans and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. From Vanity Fair. (London, October 1898).