A midnight reading from Chairman Mao's long-suppressed, but oft-quoted, 'Little Green Book'" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266664
Accession number: 
MA 11736
Author: 
Ziegler, Jack.
Published: 
1978.
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, Jan. 8, 1979.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"3395"--in pencil on upper left verso; "PnGA 896"--in pencil on lower left verso.

Summary: 

Inside a building with Chinese style architecture, a man reads to other people dressed in typical Communist outfits; he says, "A nearsighted student from Peking, confused when his feet began squeaking, climbed up on a box to get close to his sox, but neve

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink on paper.
Dimensions: 
218 x 280 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: