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"Your Majesty, my voyage will not only forge a new route to the spices of the East but also create over three thousand new jobs." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID
266048
Accession number
MA 12803
Creator
Fradon, Dana.
Published
1992.
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, Oct. 19, 1992.
348 x 493 mm
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
The explorer Christopher Columbus gives his economy positive sales pitch to Queen Isabella of Spain in her royal court, with a large map used to explain his quest; models of his ships also rest upon a nearby table.
Medium
Black porous pointed pen with brush and black ink, graphite and correction fluid and overlaid correction, on paper.
Classification