Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Our Autocrats. The Coalition
1918?
Pen and ink over graphite, on illustration board.
7 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches (188 x 133 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1607
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Title from protective guard sheet affixed to the item, and from inscription on verso.
Caption continues: Ll. George & Bonar Law alternately: Ll.G. United we sing as one individual B.L. You're aware I'm a king Ll.G. To my kingdom I bid you all B.L. We're We're aware that you object to pavilions and palaces Ll.G. But you'll find that we respect your republican fallacies. (W.S. Gilbert).
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for a cartoon for an unidentified publication.

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On guard sheet affixed to drawing, "Ll. George & Bonar Law alternately: Ll.G. United we sing as one individual B.L. You're aware I'm a king Ll.G. To my kingdom I bid you all B.L. We're We're aware that you object to pavilions and palaces Ll.G. But you'll find that we respect your republican fallacies. (W.S. Gilbert)"; on verso, in ink, "Coelesced. L.G. ... [as above]; above that, "by Edmund J. Sullivan A.R.W.S. 18 Hill Road, N.W.8."

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Drawing shows the heads of Lloyd George and Bonar Law both emerging from a single body, the left foot standing on the "Tory plank" and the right foot on the "Radical plank", with the two planks bridges by a small board labeled "Coalition"; Law wears the "skull and cross bones" head dress of the Crown Prince Wilhelm and reads from a document labeled "Union home sweet home rule, by Carson Parnel", while George wears the Prussian helmet of Wilhelm II, and reads from a document labeled "Protect free trade, by Cobden Chaplin".

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