Chris Beetles Gallery

(click image to enlarge)

The Halsbury Club Sir Ed Carson: 'Shure the bhoys'll be here dhirectly – they're as kheen as mhustard!'

Edward Tennyson Reed (1860-1933)

Price

£850

Signed

Signed with initials

Medium

Pencil

Dimensions

9 ¾ x 13 inches

Illustrated

Punch, 1 November 1911, page 319

Exhibited

The Dudley Galleries, London;
'The Illustrators, The British Art of Illustration 1800-1997', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 1997-January 1998, No 80

The cartoon depicts Lord Halsbury on the left and Viscount Robert Cecil on the right, founder members of the Halsbury Club, created to reform the membership and powers of the House of Lords. They were determined to remove Balfour from his premiership and his caricature is upside down as a poster on the far wall.

More by this artist