"Can you keep a secret? I built this baby from a kit I bought at F.A.O. Schwartz." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266264
Accession number: 
MA 12475
Author: 
Darrow, Whitney, 1909-1999.
Published: 
20th century.
Credit: 
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: 

Original drawing for a cartoon submitted to The New Yorker.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

The New Yorker Editorial Department stamp--on bottom left verso.

Summary: 

Worker in the hall of fossils in a natural history museum talks to a man in suit as they stand in front of a model of a dinosaur skeleton.

Medium: 
Brush and ink with black chalk pencil on illustration board.
Dimensions: 
420 x 317 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: