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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 titled "Ah! That's Better! Back to their War-Paint." appeared thus in the Punch's Almanack for 1911. The artist is Edward Tennyson Reed. The cartoon is captioned "When 'Conferences' are over the political braves soon recur to their normal habits."Throughout 1910-11 the Commons battled over curbing the power of the House of Lords. Prime Minister Asquith agreed, after King George V insisted, that there be a Constitutional conference between the two parties to attempt to resolve the issues amicably. They first met in June 1910. By November it was clear that no agreement could be reached. The King met frequently with Asquith and attempted to keep the situation somewhat calm, but to no avail. In this image, MPs including Asquith, Balfour, Churchill, Lloyd George, Austen Chamberlain, and Haldane are back to the political wars in the House of Commons.As a young man, the Harrow-educated cartoonist and caricaturist Edward Tennyson Reed (1860-1933) "spent time at the House of Commons sketching politicians in action." In March 1890 he became a permanent member of the staff of Punch and by 1894 became the illustrator of Punch s parliamentary pages, a post he held for eighteen years. As this cartoon of Churchill testifies, Reed "had a deft hand at sketching facial attributes amidst often absurd scenes."(NPG) Reed was popular, not only as a cartoonist, but also as an after-dinner speaker and lecturer. His drawings were published in collections, displayed at exhibitions, and even purchased by King George V. In 1912, Reed left the staff of Punch and subsequently also drew for The Bystander, the Passing Show, the Sunday Times, Pall Mall Gazette, Sunday Evening Telegraph, and the Evening Standard. (ODNB)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 007093
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