Electors Don't Try The Impossible ...
Poster
ca.1906 (issued)
ca.1906 (issued)
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'Electors don't try the impossible : Support the middle cause of Justice To All : By Voting For The Unionist Candidate'
The text runs along the top and bottom of the design, in-between which is a cartoon of a man being pulled by each arm by two men, his top-hat lying on the ground, having fallen off. One man wearing a top-hat pulls him into a doorway marked 'Rich Radicalism', the other man, wearing a red shirt, pulls him towards a door marked 'Socialism'.
Within the cartoon is the text, 'Mr.Asquith - How I Wish I`d never had anything to do with them.'
Signed 'Hassall' and stamped in blue 'No.27.'
The text runs along the top and bottom of the design, in-between which is a cartoon of a man being pulled by each arm by two men, his top-hat lying on the ground, having fallen off. One man wearing a top-hat pulls him into a doorway marked 'Rich Radicalism', the other man, wearing a red shirt, pulls him towards a door marked 'Socialism'.
Within the cartoon is the text, 'Mr.Asquith - How I Wish I`d never had anything to do with them.'
Signed 'Hassall' and stamped in blue 'No.27.'
Object details
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| Title | Electors Don't Try The Impossible ... |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithography |
| Brief description | 'Electors Don't Try the Impossible...' Political poster issued by the Unions Party, satirizing Herbert Asquith in the general election of 1906. Designed by John Hassall. Printed and published by Dobson, Molle & Co., Ltd. Edinburgh and London. 1906. |
| Physical description | 'Electors don't try the impossible : Support the middle cause of Justice To All : By Voting For The Unionist Candidate' The text runs along the top and bottom of the design, in-between which is a cartoon of a man being pulled by each arm by two men, his top-hat lying on the ground, having fallen off. One man wearing a top-hat pulls him into a doorway marked 'Rich Radicalism', the other man, wearing a red shirt, pulls him towards a door marked 'Socialism'. Within the cartoon is the text, 'Mr.Asquith - How I Wish I`d never had anything to do with them.' Signed 'Hassall' and stamped in blue 'No.27.' |
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| Object history | This poster was issued by the Unionist Party, satirizing Herbert Asquith in the general election of 1906. |
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| Other number | 17/F2 - V&A microfiche |
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| Accession number | E.186-1968 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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