"If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all.": cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID:

266992

Accession number:

MA 11780

Author:

Kleh, Tom.

Published:

2000.

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, May 29, 2000.

Inscriptions/Markings:

The New Yorker barcode sticker on bottom right verso: A5450; note on date of creation by artist in pencil on top right verso.

Summary:

Man waiting in subway station for train to arrive thinks of a quote from Hamlet.

Medium:

Pen, brush and black ink with graphite, overlaid correction and correction fluid, on paper.

Dimensions:

216 x 280 mm

Provenance:

Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.

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