PARTRIDGE, 'THE SECOND EFFORT', INK, 1923

349 by 254mm., pen and ink on board, signed, inscribed with title and ‘Punch’, and dated ‘13 June 1923’, mounted, framed and glazed

EXHIBITED:
‘The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-2014’, November 2014-January 2015, no 82

Punch, 13 June 1923, page 565

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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The French occupation of the Ruhr in January 1923 was the culmination of increasing frustration on the part of French Prime Minister Raymond Poincare at continued German attempts to default on reparation payments and a British reluctance to back French claims. The German response to the occupation was a policy of passive resistance. Miners and other workers in the Ruhr valley refused to work or assist in French extraction of goods as reparation payment. The German economy had already been in crisis since the summer of 1922, and the passive resistance in the Ruhr contributed to hyperinflation and the economy began to collapse.