WARNINGS AGAINST REARMAMENT AND THE MARCH TO WAR 16. “Kipling With His Lute Made Huns Get Together With Their Guns” Original Pencil and Watercolour Caricature Of Rudyard Kipling SASSOON, Siegfried [c. 1935]. 19 x 15cm. Original pencil and watercolour caricature of Rudyard Kipling strumming the lute. Captioned by Sas - soon; “Kipling with his Lute made Huns Get together - with their guns.” In very good condition, small tear to the upper margin, not affecting the image. [42462] £1,750 By the 1930s he was critical of Kipling’s calls for Britain to produce more armaments, and in his poem ‘Silver Jubilee Celebrations’ he sati - rised a speech to the Royal Society of St George where Kipling warned that Britain must “arm or perish”. He returns to the same theme in the present caricature with his caption, “Kipling with his lute made Huns, get together with their guns”. PROVENANCE: From the estate of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).
17. “Now, Boys, - We’ll Think Imperially!” Original Pencil and Watercolour Caricature Of Rudyard Kipling SASSOON, Siegfried
[c. 1935]. 9.5 x 13.5cm. Original pencil and watercolour caricature of Rudyard Kipling playing puppet-master to the British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare. Captioned by Sassoon in pencil “Now, boys, - we’ll think imperially!”. In very good condition. [42465] £1,250 PROVENANCE: From the estate of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).
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