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"Nineteen cricket trills in fifteen seconds ..." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID
265788
Accession number
MA 11495
Creator
Booth, George, 1926-
Published
1982
Credit line
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Janine Luke in honor of William M. Griswold and in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2011.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
Full published caption: "Nineteen cricket trills in fifteen seconds. Add forty. The temperature is approximately fifty-nine degrees Fahrenheit."
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, July 19, 1982.
305 x 228 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"September 15, 1982" - in ink on verso; copyright 1982 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker on verso: AF 5445.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
Man in bathtub calls out to woman hunched over ironing board in room full of cats.
Medium
Black ball point pen, porous pointed pen, overlaid corrections and correction fluid, on paper.
Classification