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Wanted, A Lead - a 101 year old cartoon from the original by the famous cartoonist and illustrator Sir Bernard Partridge (British 1861-1945). Published by Punch in May 1915 the cartoon (which is attributed within the image) is guaranteed to be original and not a later reproduction.

Punch was a weekly satirical magazine published between the mid 19th and 20th centuries which was also known as the London Charivari.  The cartoon reflects on Prime Minister Asquith's continuing difficulties leading the country in war.  Considered to be an outstanding peace time leader, Mr Asquith's war specific departments were poorly co-ordinated and the Government became splintered as a result of the Shell Crisis (troops at the front ran out of ammunition), and this would ultimately lead to Mr Asquith stepping down as Prime Minister.

The text on this cartoon reads:


WANTED, A LEAD.

MR PUNCH (to the PRIME MINISTER) " YOU CAN GET ALL THE WILLING SERVICE YOU NEED, SIR, IF

YOU'LL ONLY ORGANISE IT. TELL EACH MAN OF US WHAT IS WANTED OF HIM, AND HE'LL DO IT"


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Clarification of the terms 'original print' and 'signed': 

Punch cartoons were originally drawn on tracing paper and subsequently cut onto a printing plate. An original print is a print made directly from an artist's own woodcut, etching, or other original production, and printed under the artist's supervision. An original print is such irrespective of its intended purpose (high end art to be mounted and framed, or a newspaper illustration). A print taken from a print should not be described as an original print. The process of producing a plate print would, by necessity, mean the destruction of the original piece of art (the drawing). If a non limited edition print is described as signed (or attributed) this will mean that the signature is within the image as part of the print, the print was not signed individually by the artist. 


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