The challenge,Conservative Prime Minister Lord Salisbury,Joseph Chamberlain,1900

Title: [The challenge]
Creator(s): Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914, artist
Date Created/Published: 1900 Sept. 26 [publication date]
Summary: Conservative Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, dressed in armour, sits atop an armored horse, prepared for the joust. Standing beside the horse and holding a lance, his squire, Joseph Chamberlain, points to a group of men in the background, engaged in argument under the banner of the 'Liberal Party.'
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Published caption reads: Chamberlain (The Squire). 'Nay, good my lord, methinks these varlets have no champion. They do but fight with one another.'
Signed, lower right: John Tenniel. 1900. [above the date is his familiar monogram, formed with the initials JT].
Title from Punch.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1534)
Tenniel uses the jousting match as a metaphor for the British general election of 1900 in which Conservative Prime Minister Lord Salisbury was the incumbent candidate. Liberal Unionist, Joseph Chamberlain, supported and participated in Salisbury's government. Chamberlain's remark refers to the disunity of the Liberal Party at the turn of the century, which resulted from the lack of a coherent principle or approach that encompassed its various interests and aims, and from disagreement within its ranks over Irish nationalism.
Published in: Punch, September 26, 1900.
Exhibited: Library of Congress, 'Prints and Photographs Division on Exhibit,' 1979.
Subjects:
Chamberlain, Joseph,--1836-1914.
Salisbury, Robert Cecil,--Marquess of,--1830-1903.
Jousting--1900.
Political elections--United Kingdom--1900.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1900.
Drawings--British--1900.
Periodical illustrations--British--1900.
Bookmark /2009617450/
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