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"See, the problem with doing things to prolong your life is that all the extra years come at the end, when you're old" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID
265866
Accession number
MA 11514
Creator
Mankoff, Robert.
Published
1994.
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, Aug. 8, 1994.
230 x 305 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"11/29/94" - in ink on verso with artist's signature; copyright 1993 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker on verso: AJ 1690. Editorial inquiry written in pencil on verso: "No ash tray?": drawing was not altered further for publication.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
One man smoking a cigarette and drinking in a bar to another man who is drinking but not smoking.
Medium
Porous pointed pen with graphite on paper.
Classification