• White elephant marked WASTE with a hound, goat, tiger and mouse around Lloyd George, c.1922 vintage poster by David Low
  • White elephant marked WASTE with a hound, goat, tiger and mouse around Lloyd George, c.1922 vintage poster by David Low
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David Low Lloyd George 1922

David Low Lloyd George 1922

David Low1922

Lloyd George holds a placard with LIBERAL and TORY struck through, and the one word left is ANYTHING.

Sir David Low (1891 to 1963) drew the poster for The Star newspaper, and The Daily News Ltd of London printed and published it, in about 1922. Low had joined The Star in 1919 and aimed his satire at Lloyd George's Coalition government. The references can be dated.

The Black and Tans were active in Ireland in 1920 and 1921. The Addison housing programme collapsed under spending cuts in 1921. The poster belongs to the last period of the Coalition, before the Carlton Club meeting of October 1922.

On the poster

A white elephant carrying the word WASTE in block capitals fills the upper half. Around it are four labelled animals: a black-and-tan hound for the Black and Tans in Ireland, a goat for the Key Industries Act, a tiger for New Wars and a small mouse for Housing Efforts. At the centre a caricature of Lloyd George holds a placard with LIBERAL and TORY struck through, leaving only ANYTHING.

The ground is flat chrome yellow, and the line work is black.

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A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.

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