"He can't remember his name, Sergeant. All he remembers is he's somebody pretty damned important." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
290029
Accession number: 
MA 12821
Author: 
Arno, Peter.
Published: 
1942.
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, June 6, 1942.

Summary: 

Police officer talks to his superior at the police station about his prisoner, a drunk man in a three piece suit wearing a bowler hat whose pince nez lays crooked on his nose, while the policeman holds him up.

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink with graphite and overlaid typed caption, on paper.
Dimensions: 
358 x 331 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: