Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Got a Job Guvnor?
1927
15 1/16 x 11 1/16 inches (383 x 280 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper.
1986.1636
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 at bottom: Of course not, & no money to spare either! If you give him sixpence you know it will probably do him more harm than good. Prevent the unemployed from becoming the unemployable, by Buying Empire Goods, & finding work at Home & in the Dominions.
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 at bottom: Of course not, & no money to spare either! If you give him sixpence you know it will probably do him more harm than good. Prevent the unemployed from becoming the unemployable, by Buying Empire Goods, & finding work at Home & in the Dominions.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1927"; above image, "Got a Job Guvnor?"; below "Of course not, & no money to spare either! If you give him sixpence you know it will probably do him more harm than good. Prevent the unemployed from becoming the unemployable, by Buying Empire Goods, & finding work at Home & in the Dominions."
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
Catalog link
Department