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This original printed appearance of a Punch cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill comes from the personal collection of Gary L. Stiles, author of Churchill in Punch (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022). His book is the first ever effort to definitively catalog, describe, and contextualize all of the many Punch cartoons featuring Churchill. This cartoon appeared thus on p.386 of the 25 March 1953 issue of Punch. The artist is Norman Mansbridge. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had returned from Washington, where he had agreed to consult with America on mutual economic needs and international decisions - always anxious about being undercut by Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, whose larger than life presence eclipsed and infringed upon Eden, his interminably-delayed heir apparent. Hence this cartoon, featuring Eden anxious on the stage, fumbling to pull things out of the hat labeled "ANGLO-AMERICAN TALKS", looking over his shoulder at Churchill, who peers and puffs his cigar from the side of the stage. In the audience can be seen Labour's Dalton, Attlee, Morrison, and Bevan, enjoying the performance.Punch or The London Charivari began featuring Churchill cartoons in 1900, when his political career was just beginning. That political career would last two thirds of a century, see him occupy Cabinet office during each of the first six decades of the twentieth century, carry him twice to the premiership and, further still, into the annals of history as a preeminent statesman. And throughout that time, Punch satirized Churchill in cartoons more than 600 of them, the work of more than 50 different artists. It was a near-perfect relationship between satirists and subject. That Churchill was distinctive in both persona and physical appearance helped make him easy to caricature. To his persona and appearance he added myriad additional satirical temptations, not just props, like his cigars, siren suits, V-sign, and hats, but also a variety of ancillary avocations and vocations, like polo, painting, brick-laying, and writing. All these were skewered as well. Some Punch cartoons were laudatory, some critical, and many humorous, like the man himself. Nearly always, Churchill was distinctly recognizable, a larger-than-life character whose presence caricature served only to magnify. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007186
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