"Monsieur Lambert, voulez-vous aller prévenir les pompiers, au triple galop?!..." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
267269
Accession number: 
MA 11819
Author: 
Sempé, 1932-
Published: 
1980s.
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 submitted to The New Yorker.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"S03003"--in pencil on bottom left verso; "problemes"--in pencil on top center verso.

Summary: 

Woman asks a man in a horse outfit at a masked ball to run quickly to inform the firefighters, as smoke pours out the doors of an adjoining room.

Medium: 
Pen and black ink, porous pointed pen, brush and blue ink with blue clored pencil, correction fluid and graphite inscription, on paper.
Dimensions: 
242 x 197 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: