"Gentlemen, I am going abroad. And if I should die, think only this of me: that there is some corner of a foreign field that is forever West Fourth Street, between Tenth and Charles." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID

266681

Accession number

MA 11760

Creator

Handelsman, J. B.

Published

1980.

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, Sept. 1, 1980.

280 x 218 mm

Inscriptions/Markings

"PnGA 913"--in pencil on bottom left verso; "4009"--in red ink on top left verso.

Provenance

Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.

Summary

A man holds his hand over his chest in a bar and paraphrases a Rupert Brooke poem to the bartender and other drinking patrons.

Medium

Pen and black ink with blue colored pencil and typed caption in brown ink, on paper.

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