Chris Beetles

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The Lord Chief Justice

David Low (1891-1963)

Price

£2,250

Signed

Signed and inscribed with title

Medium

Pencil

Dimensions

12 x 9 inches

Illustrated

The New Statesman, Supplement, 19 June 1926

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. the British Art of Illustration 1900-2018', November 2018-January 2019, No 98

Published the year before Low took up his post as political cartoonist at the Evening Standard, this caricature features Gordon Hewart, Lord Chief Justice from March 1922 to October 1940. He had previously served as Solicitor General from 1916 to 1919 and Attorney General from 1919 to 1922.

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