BROOKES, 'THE CHANCELLORS', INK AND WATERCOLOUR , 1997

222 by 324mm., watercolour with pen and ink, signed, mounted, framed and glazed, correction to head of Nigel Lawson, some adhesive residue

Edmund Dell, The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors (London, 1997), front cover

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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For Edmund Dell’s 1997 book, The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors, Peter Brookes depicted the four Chancellors of the Exchequer, who served between 1979 and 1993: Sir Geoffrey Howe (1979-1983), Nigel Lawson (1983-1989), John Major (1989-1990) and Norman Lamont (1990-1993).