"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].

Record ID: 
266048
Accession number: 
MA 12803
Author: 
Fradon, Dana.
Published: 
1992.
Credit: 
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.

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.
Dimensions: 
348 x 493 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: