"Ah! What a glorious day to be dead!" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266676
Accession number: 
MA 11757
Author: 
Handelsman, J. B.
Published: 
1976.
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 published in The New Yorker, Feb. 16, 1976.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"PnGA 908"--in pencil on bottom left verso; "2550"--in red ink on top left verso.

Summary: 

Male angel with wings and halo stretches on cloud as if he had just woken up.

Medium: 
Pen and black ink with porous pointed pen, blue colored pencil, correction fluid, red ballpoint pen and typed caption in red ink, on paper.
Dimensions: 
280 x 216 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: