CUMMINGS, 'FROM CLEMENT ATTLEE TO JOHN MAJOR', INK, 1994

two leaves, each 170 by 505mm., ink, signed (twice), mounted, framed and glazed

drawn for From Walpole’s Bottom to John Major’s Underpants, BBC Television, October 1994

These caricatures of ten Prime Ministers, were drawn for From Walpole’s Bottom to John Major’s Underpants, a BBC documentary on the history of political cartooning that aired in October 1994. Michael Cummings was interviewed as part of the documentary, and can be seen drawing the present cartoon in the opening credits. The Prime Ministers depicted are: Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill. Anthony Eden, Harold MacMillan and Alec Douglas-Home (top panel from left to right) and Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher and John Major (lower panel from left to right)