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CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.) Photograph of Winston Churchill (as Secretary of State of War) seated wit...
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CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.) 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] Footnotes: AN UNUSUAL PHOTOGRAPH, SIGNED BY CHURCHILL AS SECRETARY OF STATE, OF HIS ARMY CABINET AT THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. 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. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.) 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] Footnotes: AN UNUSUAL PHOTOGRAPH, SIGNED BY CHURCHILL AS SECRETARY OF STATE, OF HIS ARMY CABINET AT THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. 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. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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