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[CHAMBERLAIN, Joseph]; REED (Edward Tennyson). 'Brother Joseph' - Greatest Performer on the Harmoni-ahum! Original Punch cartoon drawing, 1905. Original pen and ink drawing on heavy wove paper, 200 × 300 mm (mount 360 × 450 mm), signed 'E.T.R.' lower right, lightly toned with one or two faint spots, neatly presented in a modern window mount. A fine finished cartoon drawing by Punch artist Edward Tennyson Reed (1860-1933), published in Punch, 23 August 1905, satirising Joseph Chamberlain's protectionist Tariff Reform campaign that fractured Arthur Balfour's Conservative government. The scene - a 'ministerial minstrel troupe' playing banjos as the tide creeps in - appeared with the caption 'Who says the sands are running out?', a jab at the fading authority of Balfour's cabinet. The placard hails Chamberlain as 'Brother Joseph,' the 'greatest performer,' a reference to his dominating role in cabinet debate. Reed's caricature for Punch depicts leading political figures of the day: Arthur Balfour at the piano, Lord Lansdowne, Joseph and Austen Chamberlain, Lord Halsbury, Alfred Lyttelton, and Henry Campbell-Bannerman, with Lord Londonderry (then President of the Board of Education) as the 'academic banjo' player.
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