"Templeton has been catching crappies all morning on a jig ... " : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266303
Accession number: 
MA 11596
Author: 
Booth, George, 1926-
Published: 
1979.
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, Feb. 5, 1979.
Full published caption: "Templeton has been catching crappies all morning on a jig. He snagged a seven-pound bass on a Mississippi silverside minnow, and now he's after a monstrous channel cat with a stinkball. You'd better wake him before he goes over the limit."
Painting image with the drawing appears to have been changed wholesale as the overlaid correction is soely within the frame.

Summary: 

Man to butler in gentleman's club. Templeton flails about, knocking over a pipe and a standing ashtray as he sits dreaming in a chair.

Medium: 
Black ballpoint pen, porous pointed pen with correction fluid and overlaid correction, on paper.
Dimensions: 
305 x 228 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: