Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Cows & Pianos

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Cows & Pianos

1927
15 1/16 x 11 1/16 inches (382 x 280 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper.
1986.1632

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from item.
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: Everything in its proper place, of course. We want beef in the larder, & the Colonial wants a piano in the drawing room. We can make more pianos than we want, & the Colonial can raise more beef. A British ship takes out a piano & brings back a cow - Cargo both ways - so lower freights. Result: More employment, prosperity & content in the Colonies & at Home. Moral: BUY EMPIRE GOODS.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated below, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1927"; above image, "Cows & Pianos"; captioned below drawing, "Everything in its proper place, of course. We want beef in the larder, & the Colonial wants a piano in the drawing room. ..."
Classification
Century Drawings