So Like the Father Too - an original printed appearance of this cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill from the 8 June 1904 edition of the magazine Punch, or The London Charivari
by Artist: Edward Tennyson Reed
$40 · Offered by Biblio
London: Punch, 1904. 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 is titled "So like the father too and appeared thus on p.409 of the 8 June 1904 issue of Punch. The artist is Edward Tennyson Reed. The cartoon is captioned "'So like the father too - less in face than in figure, in gesture and manner of Speech' (Mr. W-nst-n Ch-rch-ll.)" The artist compares Churchill to his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. In this same issue and on this same page, Punch comments: "When the young Member for OLDHAM addresses House, with hands on hips, head bent forward, right foot stretched forth, memories of days that are no more flood the brain." 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 Punchs 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. H
- Publisher: Punch
- Year: 1904
- Binding: unknown
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