[The voice from the past]

Shemus.
[graphic] /
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Forbes, Ernest, 1879-1962
Summary:Depicts Lord Edmund Talbot, the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, reading a large copy of The History of Ireland. Behind him on the wall is the painting of Thomas Howard by Hans Holbein.
In collection: Shemus Cartoon Collection
Format: Prints & Drawings
Language:English
Published / Created: 3rd May 1921.
Subjects:
Notes:Shemus was a pseudonym used by Ernest Forbes.

Date appears in pencil on reverse.

Caption reads: The new Vice-roy: "Dull business, this. Much better, I fancy, to make history than to read it." Thomas Howard: "That all depends on the kind of history you make."

Unpublished title is handwritten above the image and reads: "History making".

Unpublished caption reads: The Animate Howard: "When I look at him, I too would add a page or two!"

Published in: The Freeman's Journal, 3rd May 1921.

Published in: Weekly Freeman, 7th May 1921.

Physical description: 1 drawing : ink and crayon, col ; image 29 x 27 cm., on sheet 31 x 28 cm.

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Contained in:Forms part of: The Shemus Cartoon Collection.
As a digital copy of this item is available, the original will not be issued.
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PD 4309 TX 77
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Prints & Drawings