VOWED TO SILENCE 1913 John Partridge Earl of Rosebery PUNCH CARTOON PAGE

Original 10 3/4 inch x 8 1/4 inch Wood Engraved Cartoon page titled VOWED TO SILENCE from Punch, April 23, 1913.

[LORD ROSEBERY, at a dinner of the Press Club, announced that he might possibly never make another speech in public.]

Earl of Rosebery (Archibald Philip Primrose), (1847 - 1929). Rosebery is perhaps the least well-known of the Liberal Prime Ministers, having the misfortune to serve in the office for only a short period, immediately after the extended career of the charismatic Gladstone. He had a difficult relationship with the radicals of his parliamentary party, not because of his social policy attitudes (he was a convinced constructionist) but because of his forthright imperialist views, and his excessive sensitivity to the robust exchanges of politics. Winston Churchill captured the essence of Rosebery in the phrase: ‘he would not stoop; he did not conquer.’

The cartoon is by John Bernard Partridge (1861 - 1945). An English illustrator born in London. Partridge was educated at Stonyhurst College, and after matriculating at the University of London entered the office of Dunn & Hansom, architects. He then joined for a couple of years a firm of stained-glass designers (Lavers, Barraud and Westlake), learning drapery and ornament; and then studied and executed church ornament under Philip Westlake, 1880–1884. He began illustration for the press and practised watercolour painting, but his chief success was derived from book illustration. In 1891 he joined the staff of Punch and, in 1910, became its chief cartoonist, replacing Edward Linley Sambourne. During his time at Punch, Partridge published several cartoons showing his support for the Suffragist movement. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and of The Pastel Society

Punch, or The London Charivari, was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.

The pag is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.