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Display no. 2 - an unparalleled array of peculiar and perplexing personalities marching before you in plentitudious procession constituting the greatest parade of human freaks and oddities ever assembled. : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID
266536
Accession number
MA 12282
Creator
Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954.
Published
1935.
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
Original drawing for an illustration published on the cover of The New Yorker, Apr. 27, 1935.
Title from overlaid caption.
355 x 255 mm
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
A procession of circus performers, including trapeze artists, acrobats, gymnasts, animal trainers, a bearded woman, a giant, a few dwarfs, a sword swallower, a fat lady and various animals, like elephants, horses and dogs.
Medium
Pen, brush and ink with compressed black chalk pencil and graphite with overlaid caption, on paper.
Classification