"The shoulder strap - regardez madame - how they always appear just on the verge." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266385
Accession number: 
MA 12530
Author: 
Shermund, Barbara, 1899-1978.
Published: 
1937.
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 associated with The New Yorker.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"Mar 27 / 37"--in pencil on center verso.

Summary: 

Sales woman in gown department, with a measuring tape around her neck, smiles devilishly as her customer worriedly examines how she looks in a low cut dress in the mirror.

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink with graphite on paper.
Dimensions: 
480 x 380 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: