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Lot 63

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)
Photograph of Churchill (as Secretary of State of War) with members of "The Army Council" SIGNED BY CHURCHILL ("W.S. Churchill") and 8 other sitters, [c.1919]

20 November 2024, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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CHURCHILL (WINSTON)

Photograph of Winston Churchill (as Secretary of State of War) seated with members of "The Army Council" beneath a portrait of King Edward VII, SIGNED BY CHURCHILL ("W.S. Churchill") and 8 other sitters, gelatin silver prints on original mount, the signatures vertical in upper margin of mount, captioned "The Army Council" in ink beneath image, mounted, framed and glazed, image 168 x 228mm., [c.1919]

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AN UNUSUAL PHOTOGRAPH OF CHURCHILL'S ARMY CABINET AT THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, SIGNED BY CHURCHILL AS SECRETARY OF STATE.

Provenance: Sir James Stevenson (1873-1926), chairman of the Munitions Council's committee on demobilization and reconstruction, and from 1919 to 1921 surveyor-general of supply at the War Office. He was also a member of both the army and air councils (1919–21), ink note "To be returned to Sir James Stevenson, Room 202, War Office". He is one of those who has signed the mount, and presumably was responsible for circulating the photograph to be signed. Others who have signed include Lieutenant-General Travers Clarke, 1st Earl Peel (Under-Secretary of State for War, seated to the right of Churchill), and T.H.J. Goodwin. Earl Haig (seated to Churchill's left) has not signed.

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