Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
The Right Honourable Viscount Grey of Falloden [sic] K.G etc.
1918
14 11/16 x 10 3/4 inches (373 x 273 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1579
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Caption continues: Ah God, for a man with head, heart, and hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat - one Who can rule and dare not lie. Tennyson. by Edmund J. Sullivan A.R.W.S.
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for a political cartoon for publication in the London weekly, The National news, 1918.
Caption continues: Ah God, for a man with head, heart, and hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat - one Who can rule and dare not lie. Tennyson. by Edmund J. Sullivan A.R.W.S.
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for a political cartoon for publication in the London weekly, The National news, 1918.
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Signed and dated at upper left, "Edmund J. Sullivan 1918"; on verso in pen, "The Right Honourable Viscount Grey of Falloden [sic] K.G etc. Ah God, for a man with head, heart, and hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat - one Who can rule and dare not lie. Tennyson. by Edmund J. Sullivan A.R.W.S."; in pencil, "National News 4 1/2 high."
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