"Isn't it a pity they didn't have drugs like streptomycin in those days?" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
343399
Accession number: 
MA 12966
Author: 
Tobey, B. (Barney), 1906-1989.
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: 
1 drawing.
Notes: 

Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Mar. 23, 1957.

Summary: 

Woman remarks to her husband in the balcony of the Metropolitan Opera House, as they watch a scene of a woman dying in bed.

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink with correction fluid and graphite on paper.
Dimensions: 
675 x 545 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: