In one of the most emotionally arresting images of the First World War home front, artist Harold Copping depicts a young widow in black — her head buried in her hands against the edge of a child's bed — while the luminous figure of Christ materializes from shadow to offer comfort, and a fair-haired baby plays obliviously on the quilt above her. On the wall hangs a small oval portrait of a soldier in khaki uniform: the absent — and almost certainly fallen — husband and father. Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons in their celebrated "Oilette" series (card no. 8865) as part of their wartime consolation line, this card carries a verse by Adela Wilkins beginning "Sorrow's hard touch may bruise the heart awhile…" and cites St. John XIV:18 — "I will not leave you comfortless." Tuck's Oilette cards held "By Appointment" status as art publishers to King George V and Queen Mary, lending an air of royal imprimatur to what was, functionally, mass-produced grief support for millions of British families. Harold Copping was among the most prolific and respected religious illustrators of the Edwardian and wartime eras; his biblical scenes were widely reproduced on both sides of the Atlantic.