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Hiscocks, Ercildoune Frederick, fl 1899-1940s :Grand realistic Coronation tableaux. Try the members of the Opposition in commemoration of the crowning of King Geo V and the related cable of the accession of Sir Joseph Ward to the House of Peers ... The roll call. E F Hiscocks with apologies to Lady Butler [1911]
- Date
- 1911
- Reference
- E-212-q-008
- Description
Members of the New Zealand Parliamentary Opposition, standing in a snowy landscape, with a man ticking their names off a list. William Massey is seated on a donkey on the left. Human and animal skulls and a small lapdog are in the foreground, along with the boots of a dead man on the right. The men are all armed, most are wounded, and they are dressed in Russian-style military uniforms
An original drawing for an illustration which appeared in Hiscocks' publication "Joe Ward abroad" (1911)
The reference to Lady Butler is to Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler, whose 1874 oil The Roll Call (or Calling the Roll after an engagement, Crimea) is the model for the composition of this cartoon
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink, on card bound into album, 245 x 306 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Hiscocks, Ercildoune Frederick :Original caricatures (chiefly [of Sir Joseph] Ward) / E. F Hiscocks [1910 and] 1911 / Hiscocks, Ercildoune Frederick :Original caricatures (chiefly [of Sir Joseph] Ward) / E. F Hiscocks [1910 and] 1911
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Caricatures, Ink, on card bound into album, 245 x 306 mm.
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Hiscocks, Ercildoune Frederick, fl 1899-1940s :Grand realistic Coronation tableaux. Try the members of the Opposition in commemoration of the crowning of King Geo V and the related cable of the accession of Sir Joseph Ward to the House of Peers ... The roll call. E F Hiscocks with apologies to Lady Butler [1911]. Hiscocks, Ercildoune Frederick :Original caricatures (chiefly [of Sir Joseph] Ward) / E. F Hiscocks [1910 and] 1911. Ref: E-212-q-008. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/30626126More information can be found in our terms of use.