BIB_ID
343404
Accession number
MA 12955
Creator
Day, Robert James, 1900-1985.
Published
1940.
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, Dec. 21, 1940.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Title supplied by cataloger.
457 x 356 mm
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
Butler carrying a flaming dessert on a silver tray through the snow to a family peeking their heads out of a wartime bomb shelter, as air raid floodlights fill the night sky.
Medium
Pen, brush and inks with white opaque watercolor and graphite on wove paper.
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