In the context of The Boyhood of Raleigh, explain the Cartoons of the Literary and satirical use.
The painting has been parodied many times in political cartoons.
In 1928, New Zealand cartoonist David Low published a political cartoon showing the Earl of Birkenhead (the incumbent Secretary of State for India), Stanley Baldwin (the incumbent Prime Minister) and Winston Churchill (the incumbent Chancellor of the Exchequer) listening to "Tales of the Dominions" from Leo Amery (the incumbent Colonial Secretary).In 1993 the Sunday Telegraph ran "The Boyhood of Hurd and Major". The then Prime Minister John Major and Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, who had recently pushed the Maastricht Treaty through Parliament against the wishes of many Conservatives, were shown as small boys in Elizabethan costume, listening as an old sailor (Sir Edward Heath) gestured towards the coast labelled "Europe" visible on the other side of the water. Former Prime Minister Heath – whose hobby had been yachting – had taken Britain into the EEC (as it was then called) during his premiership, and had grown up in Kent where the coast of France is visible on a clear day. At the time Heath was Father of the House of Commons and enjoying something of an Indian Summer after the ousting of his political nemesis, the eurosceptic Margaret Thatcher, as Prime Minister in 1990.
In 1999 the Daily Telegraph published a Garland cartoon, showing the then Conservative leader William Hague as a small boy (this was common in satire at the time, as Hague had first attained national fame as a teenager in the 1970s), while two old sailors – former Foreign Secretary David Owen and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey – gestured inland and away from a ship labelled "Euro". The two elder statesmen described themselves as pro-European but opposed to British membership of the Single Currency.
David Low Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill Father of the House Chancellor of the Exchequer Father of the House of Commons Sir Edward Heath political cartoon David Owen Earl of Birkenhead Secretary of State for India Stanley Baldwin Margaret Thatcher Leo Amery Edward Heath Denis Healey Elizabethan Douglas Hurd John Major Prime Minister