Wife buys 'conversation piece' : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
267001
Accession number: 
MA 11781.1-6
Author: 
Smith, Claude.
Published: 
1957
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: 
6 drawings.
Notes: 

Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Feb. 23, 1957.
Title supplied by cataloger.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"59.8"--in pencil on top right verso of first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth sheets; "will call size of frame"--in pencil on top left verso of second sheet; "AD2059"--in blue colored pencil on center verso of sixth sheet.

Summary: 

Woman buys a lamp marked "Conversation Piece" in the window of an antiques store, she brings it home, and she and her husband proceed to quarrel over it.

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink, on paper.
Dimensions: 
145 x 188 mm (each)
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: