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Title BRT's Icy Inferno: Shivering Shades
Creator McCay, Winsor, 1867?-1934
Date 191?
Finding number CGA.AC.H3.051 [9716]
Start Date 1900
End date 1910
Genre editorial cartoon
Subject Brooklyn Rapid Transit
commuter trains
Shown Train
icicles
men
women
Medium Blue pencil/Pencil/Ink/Illustration board
Width (cm) 55.000
Height (cm) 34.000
Collection Woody Gelman Collection
Description Written in pencil at lower center:
"His face each downward held'
Their mouth the cold,
Their eyes expressed the doloar of their heart."
Dante's Inferno. Canto XXXII
Part of The Exhibit: Eye of the Cartoonist: Dan Clowes's Selections from Comics History, At the Wexner Center for the Arts, May 17, 2014 - August 3, 2014
Credit line Woody Gelman Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Accession number CGA.WG.1982
Online resources Woody Gelman Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Version original art