Summary

Drawing by Ambrose Dyson, 1946. This cartoon comments on the potentially unrestricted power of the Upper House. It probably dates from Dyson's association with Labour Call to which he contributed a weekly cartoon, signed under the pseudonym 'Dido', between May 1946 and February 1949. It was exhibited at the Social Realists Exhibition at the Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery in July 1990.

Edward Ambrose Dyson (1908-1952) was a prominent member of the Australian social realist art movement, and contributed a weekly cartoon to the Guardian from 1949 to 1952. His father (Ambrose Dyson) and an uncle (Will Dyson) were also cartoonists. In 1945 he joined the Communist Party and was an active member until his death in 1952.

Description of Content

Drawing - He'll Be Sorry

Physical Description

Raw wooden, framed, mounted ink cartoon of a fat man, 'LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY' (on waistcoat) in formal dress (watch chain, spats) lying on his back in a stupor and clutching in his left hand a flagon, 'SUPPLY'.

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