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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Undignified? One Must do Something for a Living!! Anything's Better Than Being on the Dole
1927
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper.
15 x 11 1/16 inches (381 x 280 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1631
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Drawing for an advertisement promoting the purchase of products produced in the British Empire, part of a government campaign devised by the Empire Marketing Board of Great Britain.
Caption continues: Buy British & Colonial Goods & Reduce Unemployment & Send Down the Rates.
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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1927"; captioned below drawing, "Undignified? One Must do Something for a Living!! Anything's Better Than Being on the Dole. Buy British & Colonial Goods & Reduce Unemployment & Send Down the Rates."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Illustration shows a lion swinging from a trapeze by his tail.
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