"I'm sorry, Mr. Harrison, but I won't be in today. I just started a book and I can't put it down." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266716
Accession number: 
MA 11705
Author: 
Martin, Henry, 1925-
Published: 
1980.
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, Aug. 25, 1980.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"PnGA 948" -- in pencil on verso; editorial note: "at breakfast table" -- in pencil on recto [published version changed the setting of the cartoon to the breakfast table].

Summary: 

Woman on the telephone while sitting up in bed with an open book laying on the bed cover.

Medium: 
Pen and black ink with porous pointed pen and typed caption, on paper.
Dimensions: 
280 x 217 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: