"The Court rules that the witness may hold the guitar, but may not strum, pluck, or in any other matter cause sounds to emanate from said guitar." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID

267032

Accession number

MA 12177

Creator

Handelsman, J. B.

Published

20th century

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 associated with The New Yorker.

275 x 210 mm

Provenance

Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.

Summary

Judge to hippy styled man with a fringed jacket, a moustache, sunglasses, necklace and sandals holding an acoustic guitar in the witness stand of a courtroom.

Medium

Pen and black ink with porous pointed pen, blue colored pencil, correction fluid and overlaid correction, on paper.

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Classification

Drawing

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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"The Court rules that the witness may hold the guitar, but may not strum, pluck, or in any other matter cause sounds to emanate from said guitar." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].