Overall: 31cm (12.2in) x 27cm (10.5in)
An original black Sunday Dispatch photograph of Sir Winston Churchill in the hunting field. Presented in its original mount and frame.
The period Associated Press photograph of the former cavalry officer and statesman was taken on the occasion of his 74th birthday while out hunting with the Old Surrey & Burstow near Chartwell Farm in 1948. At that time Clement Attlee’s Labour Government were trying to ban hunting with dogs, and Churchill displayed his opposition by borrowing a horse and joining a meet at Chartwell. A copy of this image hangs in the lower stairwell at Chartwell.
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Perhaps unexpectedly Churchill could be ambivalent when it came to bloodsports. In the early 1950s, when prime minister for the second time, he dismissed a request from the British Army of the Rhine to lift the Nazis’ 1934 ban, saying, 'Do the Germans really object to fox hunting by British troops in Lower Saxony? If they do, it should be stopped. You may occupy a country, but that does not give you unlimited freedom to indulge in sports which annoy the inhabitants.’