WINSOME WINNIE - an original printed appearance of this cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill from the 28 February 1912 edition of the magazine Punch, or The London Charivari

by Artist: Edward Tennyson Reed

$40 · Offered by Biblio

London: Punch, 1912. 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 titled "WINSOME WINNIE.” appeared thus on p.160 of the 28 February 1912 issue of Punch. The artist is Edward Tennyson Reed. At the time, Winston had just lent support to a peace mission to Berlin headed by Minister of War Richard Haldane. The mission failed when Germany demanded that in exchange for building fewer warships, Britain must promise to remain neutral if Germany was in engaged in any war in which it was not the aggressor. The explanation offered for the cartoon is "Winsome Winston since he genially backed up the War Minister's mission of peace to Berlin by describing the German Fleet as a luxury, a sort of extra glass of beer or superfluous pipe." 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 Punch’s 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)

• Publisher: Punch
• Year: 1912
• Binding: unknown

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