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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
That Blessed Word - Mesopotamia
1917
14 11/16 x 10 5/8 inches (373 x 270 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1571
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Caption continues: Indian executioner, headsman, common hangman: -"We've come about this Mesopotamia job; & we've brought our tools." Elder Brother. "Ah, dear friends, we no longer use these barbarous methods--We choke them with butter."
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for political cartoon for publication in the London weekly, The National news, 1917.
Cartoon commenting on the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I.
Caption continues: Indian executioner, headsman, common hangman: -"We've come about this Mesopotamia job; & we've brought our tools." Elder Brother. "Ah, dear friends, we no longer use these barbarous methods--We choke them with butter."
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for political cartoon for publication in the London weekly, The National news, 1917.
Cartoon commenting on the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I.
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Signed and dated at upper left, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1917"; on verso in ink, "That blessed word - Mesopotamia. Indian executioner, headsman, common hangman: -"We've come about this Mesopotamia job; & we've brought our tools." Elder Brother. "Ah, dear friends, we no longer use these barbarous methods--We choke them with butter." By Edmund Sullivan A.R.W.S."
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