Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Why Does a Mouse When it Spins? Because the Sooner the Higher!
1927
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper.
15 1/16 x 11 1/16 inches (382 x 280 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1633
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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: We don't grow Oranges in England-No-But we Build Ships! This may sound almost as lunatic a statement as the first - but is it? Every orange you eat does you good - If it is an Empire Orange it also does good to the Colonial grower, increases his buying power & goodwill towards us, & helps British shipping & British Shipbuilding - See? Moral - Buy Empire Goods.

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Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1927"; above image, "Why Does a Mouse When it Spins? Because the Sooner the Higher!"; below "We don't grow Oranges in England-No-But we Build Ships! ..."

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Illustration shows a jester pointing his bauble at a barefooted rustic with straw in his hair.

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