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SCARFE | [THE 1970s] | "He May Spoil My Cake but He's Nearly Burnt Out" [Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath]
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December 6, 04:07 PM GMT
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GERALD SCARFE
"He May Spoil My Cake but He's Nearly Burnt Out" [Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath]
760 by 540mm. (on 760 by 560mm. sheet), pen and ink drawing with corrections in gouache, captioned "Happy | Birthday | Maggie" and "He May Spoil My | Cake But He's | Nearly Burnt | Out.", signed lower right, unmounted sheet
Published within The Sunday Times, 15 October 1978, p. 16. Later published in Line of Attack (1998), p. 190.
An article by Ronald Butt printed with this cartoon in The Sunday Times notes "Mrs Thatcher has made it finally clear that the Conservatives will offer a genuinely alternative approach to the central problem of economic management when the election comes..."
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