"It's sixteen hundred for August, including gas, electricity, maintenance, beach sticker, and old Mrs. Pennington up in the attic." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID

266760

Accession number

MA 11667

Creator

Booth, George, 1926-

Published

1976.

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 a cartoon published in The New Yorker, July 12, 1976.

305 x 228 mm

Inscriptions/Markings

"PnGA 992" -- in pencil on verso; "in attic window" -- in pencil on recto.

Provenance

Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.

Summary

Real estate agent pitching beach house property to family as old woman stands on the front porch.

Medium

Black ballpoint pen with graphite inscriptions and overlaid corrections on paper.

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