'Far Be It from Me – !!'
'The Budget has the unpleasant aspect of being both crude and vindictive. I do not say that It Is crude and vindictive. Far be It from e to say anything of the kind' (Laughter) (Lord Rosebery)
Edward Tennyson Reed (1860-1933)
Price
£750
Signed
Signed with initials Inscribed 'Lord Rosebery: "Far be it from me -!!"' below mount
Medium
Pencil
Dimensions
9 ½ x 7 ¾
inches
Illustrated
Punch, 1 December 1909, page 391
Exhibited
The Dudley Galleries, London; 'The Illustrators. the British Art of Illustration 1837-2012', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2012 - January 2013, No 145