Record ID:
292534
Accession number:
MA 12830
Published:
1972.
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, July 23, 1973.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Copyright 1972 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. statement--taped on center verso.
Summary:
Wealthy patrician Roman speaks to a humbly dressed man in a robe with a shepherd's staff, who is perhaps trying to convert this Roman moneylender to Christianity.
Medium:
Black porous pointed pen with brush and black ink with correction fluid with graphite, on paper.
Dimensions:
343 x 383 mm
Provenance:
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
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