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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 "IMPRESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT" appeared thus on p.619 of the 19 May 1954 issue of Punch. The artist is Michael Cummings (1919-1997), who worked for Punch for more than 30 years.This cartoon may have been prompted by Winston Churchill joining the Queen on the Royal Yacht Britannia on 14 May as she sailed up the Thames, with Churchill describing the history of the Thames and London. In this image, Prime Minister Churchill is at the helm, with his notional successor, Eden, in the crow's nest looking ahead. Attlee, Leader of the Opposition, stands finger-wagging before Churchill, ostensibly telling him what to do. Also on board are Parliamentary players Bevan, Butler, and Morrison. After being Leader of the Opposition since July 1945, Churchill finally returned to the premiership in October 1951 at nearly 77 years old. Churchill was well past 79 when this cartoon was published, and both pressure and speculation about his successor was increasing. Churchill would resign his second and final premiership less than a year later, on 5 April 1955.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 007195
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