Parliamentary 'Liberty Men' return to H.M.S. 'Loquacity',1908,Arthur Balfour

Title: Parliamentary 'Liberty Men' return to H.M.S. 'Loquacity'
Creator(s): Reed, Edward Tennyson, 1860-1933, artist
Date Created/Published: 1908 Jan. 29 [publication date]
Summary: Twelve members of Britain's governing body, dressed as sailors, dance on the deck of a ship. The sailors include: Sir Arthur James Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, and a young Winston Churchill.
Notes:
In a commentary below the image in the publication, Campbell-Bannerman expounds on the naval theme and parliament's volatile nature by comparing a session in the House of Commons to the sea. He states, 'I'm thinking of a quiet pond-like ocean, looking as if it wouldn't wreck a cockle-shell. Suddenly over its placid surface sweeps a gale, and before the day is spent your ship, maybe an Atlantic liner, is tossed about like a cork. Equally common is the day breaking in a storm and ending in sunshine and calm.'
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Signed, lower right: E.T.R.
Title inscribed below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.553)
Reed compares Parliament's tradition of lively rhetoric with the verbosity of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, 'H.M.S. Pinafore.'
Published in: Punch, January 29, 1908.
Exhibited in: Churchill and the Great Republic, Library of Congress, 2004.
Subjects:
Sullivan, Arthur,--1842-1900.--H.M.S. Pinafore.
Great Britain.--Parliament--1900-1910.
Dance--1900-1910.
Politicians--England--1900-1910.
Sailors--1900-1910.
Drawings--British--1900-1910.
Editorial cartoons--British--1900-1910.
Periodical illustrations--British--1900-1910.
Bookmark /2009617217/
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