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RICHARD TAYLOR.
Group of 4 cartoons for The New
Yorker.
Ink and wash on board.Average mea-
surement 381x254 mm; 15x10
inches, board. All signed in image,
two captioned in lower margins.
Scattered light marginal soiling, first
image with measurement indications,
all with The NewYorker stamp and
printers’ indications on versos, issue
date stamped on paper cover attached
to side of board. Being “Our Gallery
of Ancient Favorites:The Blessed and
the Damned,”November 21, 1936, p.
21;“‘Now don’t stir, old man..,” May
25, 1940, p. 12; no caption, June 7,
1941, p. 12; and no caption,
November 8, 1941 (not used in this
issue).
[600/900]
“
Blessed and Damned.” 2 November
1936 * “Keep perfectly still, Henderson,
I’ve seen this very situation handled sev-
eral times in the cinema.” (Original working title here, changed slightly in published caption). 25 May
1940 * Untitled (bride carrying groom over threshold). 7 June 1941 * Untitled (startled office worker
lifting roll top desk to find roosting pigeons). 8 November 1941.
