Edmund Joseph Sullivan
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Caption continues: John Bull. Well Bonar, what's all this? going to wallpaper the place, or what? Steward. Wall paper? no sir. These are the bills. John Bull. Oh Law!
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for political cartoon for publication in the London weekly, The National news, 1917.
Signed and dated at upper right, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1917"; on verso in pen, "The account of his stewardship. John Bull. Well Bonar, what's all this? going to wallpaper the place, or what? Steward. Wall paper? no sir. These are the bills. John Bull. Oh Law!; with "National News," in pencil, followed by specifications for the printer.
Drawing shows the figure of John Bull addressing Chancellor of the Exchequer, Bonar Law, who stands before him with loads of rolled documents under each arm. Behind them on the wall hands a map of the British Empire, and at their feet lies a copy of the National News, with the headline, "8,000,000 po[unds?] a day."