Policial cartoon by Sidney Strube

ca.1929 · Drawing · 30.6 × 52.8 cm

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Cartoonist Sidney Strube (1892-1956) uses characters from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas Patience, The Sorcerer, The Pirates of Penzance, The Gondoliers and H.M.S. Pinafore to lampoon politicians active in the period 1929-31, when Ramsay MacDonald's second Labour government was dealing with the economic consequences of the Great Depression. Among the figures is J.H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal with special responsible for employment, who is mocked as the 'unemployment queen' in adapted lyrics from The Gondoliers. Leader of the Liberal Party, David Lloyd George, becomes John Wellington Wells, the 'dealer in magic and spells' from The Sorcerer. Conservative party leader, and previous Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin is Patience, standing apart and patiently waiting to return to power, while, in a direct quote from the opera, the Labour ministers 'sit sighing night and day'. The fact that Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald is absent from the cartoon is a comment in itself.

Strube, the son of a German wine merchant, was born in London and studied art at St. Martin's Art School and the John Hassall School of Art. Encouraged by Hassall to take up a career as a cartoonist, Strube had his first cartoons published in 1910 and then worked as a freelance cartoonist, producing work for the Bystander and the Evening Times. He joined the Daily Express as a freelance cartoonist in 1912 with an exclusive contract, and became the newpaper's house cartoonist until his retirement in 1948. Strube's political cartoons caricatured the British government as well as international affairs, and often featured a little bowler-hatted man with pince-nez glasses, bow tie and an umbrella as the typical Englishman, stoical in the face of misfortune. Strube's understated humour made him one of the most popular and highly-paid cartoonists of the day, and even Stanley Baldwin declared: 'Strube is a gentle genius. I don't mind his attacks because he never hits below the belt.'

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