The White-House Man's Burden Uncle Taft (On Mexican Frontier) 'Who Goes There?' Filibuster 'I Do!' Uncle Taft 'Guess You Can't!' Filibuster 'Well Who Are You, Anyhow?' Uncle Taft 'That's My Business. All this Hemisphere Is My Business.'

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The White-House Man's Burden Uncle Taft (On Mexican Frontier) 'Who Goes There?' Filibuster 'I Do!' Uncle Taft 'Guess You Can't!' Filibuster 'Well Who Are You, Anyhow?' Uncle Taft 'That's My Business. All this Hemisphere Is My Business.'

Leonard Raven-Hill (1867-1942)

Price

~~£950~~ £550

Signed

Signed and inscribed with title

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

9 ½ x 11 inches

Illustrated

Punch, 22 March 1911, page 201

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1837-2012', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2012 - January 2013, no 149

This cartoon presents the Liberal government in the setting of a pleasure boat, a motif that at first seems appropriately celebratory for a summer issue of Punch. However, it alludes to the long-established allegory of the Ship of Fools, and so critiques a political lack of direction, as is signalled by the loaded title phrase ‘at sea’ and the image of the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, steering a wheel emblazoned with his procrastinating coinage, ‘Wait and See’. The ship itself is called ‘The People’s Will’, a term appropriated by the Liberals and, especially, Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had published a book of essays with that title in 1910.

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