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Look Out Brutus Caesar is Going to Unseal his Lips
Presented by the artist 1946
‘Julius Caesar’
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Look Out, Brutus! Caesar is Going to Unseal his Lips!
support: 368 × 552 mm
Presented by the artist 1946
<p><b>N05670</b> LOOK OUT, BRUTUS! CAESAR IS GOING TO UNSEAL HIS LIPS! 1936
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Low’ b.r. and with title b.c.
<br/>Indian ink and blue chalk, 14 1/2×21 3/4 (36×55·5).
<br/>Presented by the artist 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> London Gallery, May–June 1937 (77).</p>
<p>Published in the <i>Evening Standard</i>, 13 May 1936. The cartoon represents Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, ‘torn by a wish to lose neither the favour of the pacificist masses, nor the chance one day to begin a programme of rearmament. Baldwin could not bring himself to trust the people with the full facts of the national position. “My lips are sealed,” he said. Whereupon I labelled him OLD SEALED LIPS and drew him regularly with gum-tape across his mouth. The nickname spread and I heard that his staff used it at Downing Street.’ (Low, <i>Autobiography,</i> 1956, pp.255–6.)</p>
<p>This cartoon represents an occasion when, harried by the critics depicted in the cartoon, Baldwin threatened to speak plainly to a Conservative Conference. To the left of Baldwin are seen Sir Austen Chamberlain and Neville Chamberlain, to the right Winston Churchill, Sir Robert Horne, Sir Samuel Hoare, an unidentified type and Leo Amery; behind on the right are ‘Colonel Blimp’ and the artist; in the foreground Lord Beaverbrook. (Letters from the artist, 6 February 1956 and 26 March 1961.)</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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actions: processes and functions adults Amery, Leopold architecture artist, cartoonist artist - non-specific artist, painter arts and entertainment author Baldwin, Stanley Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, 1st Baron businessman caricature cartoon / comic strip Chamberlain, Austen, Sir Chamberlain, Neville characters Churchill, Winston clothing and personal items Colonel Blimp Conservative Party (UK) dress: fantasy/fancy educational and scientific emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas England formal qualities government government and politics group groups groups historian historical historical, Roman history Hoare, Samuel, Sir Horne, Robert interiors journalist ‘Julius Caesar’ literary literature and fiction looking / watching Low, David man military named groups named individuals newspaper, ‘Evening Standard’ objects people places places of entertainment places of entertainment political tension politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer politician, First Lord of the Admiralty politician, Home Secretary politician, Lord Chancellor politician, Member of Parliament politician, minister politician - non-specific politician, prime minister politician, Secretary of State politics and society politics: Baldwin Government, 1935-37 portraits public service reading, writing, printed matter satire self-portraits Shakespeare shock social comment society soldier theatre theatre toga trading and commercial UK countries and regions UK London Westminster, Royal Albert Hall work and occupations