"Gentlemen, I am going abroad. And if I should die, think only this of me: that there is some corner of a foreign field that is forever West Fourth Street, between Tenth and Charles." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266681
Accession number: 
MA 11760
Author: 
Handelsman, J. B.
Published: 
1980.
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, Sept. 1, 1980.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"PnGA 913"--in pencil on bottom left verso; "4009"--in red ink on top left verso.

Summary: 

A man holds his hand over his chest in a bar and paraphrases a Rupert Brooke poem to the bartender and other drinking patrons.

Medium: 
Pen and black ink with blue colored pencil and typed caption in brown ink, on paper.
Dimensions: 
280 x 218 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: