"I wish you would make up your mind, Mr. Dickens. ..." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266211
Accession number: 
MA 11543
Author: 
Handelsman, J. B.
Published: 
1986.
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, Mar. 9, 1987.
Full published caption: "I wish you would make up your mind, Mr. Dickens. Was it the best of times, or was it the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both."

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Copyright 1986 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker on verso: AH 649.

Summary: 

Publisher seated behind desk to Charles Dickens.

Medium: 
Pen and black ink with correction fluid and traces of blue colored pencil, on paper.
Dimensions: 
301 x 228 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: