The Marples cartoons: drawings by various cartoonists, 1960-67

Harold Macmillan; Richard Austen Butler; John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd; Ernest Marples

by William Papas ('Papas')
pen and ink, early 1960s
NPG 5356

(Alfred) Ernest Marples, 1st Baron Marples ('And with a wave of my magic wand, I shall again perform the impossible....')

by Victor Weisz
pencil, pen and ink, blue crayon and white heightening, published in Evening Standard 7 December 1961
NPG 5353

'Beeching Special'

by Sir David Low
pen and ink, white heightening and wash, circa 1962
NPG 5348

This is a far, far better thing.... than I have ever done

by Neville Colvin ('Colvin')
pen and ink and Letratone, 1962
NPG 5350

Change the crew? Why we'll row forever, steady from stroke to bow

by Victor Weisz
pencil, pen and ink and white heightening, published in Evening Standard 5 April 1962
NPG 5351

'Hitched-up' ((Alfred) Ernest Marples, 1st Baron Marples; Richard Beeching, 1st Baron Beeching)

by Stanley Franklin ('Franklin')
pen and ink, blue crayon and white heightening, 1962
NPG 5355

(Alfred) Ernest Marples, 1st Baron Marples; Richard Beeching, 1st Baron Beeching

by William Papas ('Papas')
pen and ink and blue crayon, published in the Guardian 24 September 1962
NPG 5357

'Conservative planning works' (Reginald Maudling; (Alfred) Ernest Marples, 1st Baron Marples)

by Victor Weisz
pen and ink, blue crayon and white heightening, published in Evening Standard 27 November 1963
NPG 5352

'At least, he's doing something!'

by Victor Weisz
pen and ink, blue crayon and white heightening, published in Evening Standard 3 September 1963
NPG 5354

'University of the Air'

by John Musgrave-Wood ('Emmwood')
pen and ink, Letratone and white heightening, 1963
NPG 5358

Two unknown men

by Keith Waite ('Waite')
pencil, pen and ink, 1963
NPG 5359

'So what if we lose a few shopkeepers votes' he said

by William Papas ('Papas')
pen and ink and blue crayon, 1964
NPG 5360

After weeks of deliberations, the government has now found the answer to the charge that the ''voters are tired of the same old faces''

by Victor Weisz
pen and ink, blue crayon and white heightening, 1964
NPG 5361

Sir Edward Heath; (Alfred) Ernest Marples, 1st Baron Marples; Harold Wilson

by William Papas ('Papas')
pen and ink, 1965
NPG 5349

(Alfred) Ernest Marples, 1st Baron Marples; Harold Wilson

by John Musgrave-Wood ('Emmwood')
pen and ink, Letratone and white heightening, 1965
NPG 5362

'Well, Marples hath gone - now what?'

by John Musgrave-Wood ('Emmwood')
pen and ink and Letratone, 1967
NPG 5363

'I wouldn't mind him playing the organ if only he knew how to play it'

by (Arthur Stuart) Michael Cummings ('Cummings')
pen and ink and wash, 1967
NPG 5364