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"Important Issues Need Intelligent Spokesmen / The Unformed Brain Defends The Unborn Child."

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Date:

1988

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Box number: 1

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2968271

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John Peter Stacey Pickersgill fonds

Cartoon drawings

"Important Issues Need Intelligent Spokesmen / The Unformed Brain Defends The Unborn Child."
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Date(s):

1988

Place:

Ottawa

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pen and brush with black India ink over black marker and black marker, alone on commercial board
Support 36.500 x 41.000 cm
Image 30.500 x 31.900 cm

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Depicted (left side of image), facing right, is a broadly smiling B.C. Premier Bill Vanderzalm (head & shoulders) talking into a microphone held by the hand of some unseen member of the Press / News Media

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Artist: Pickersgill, Peter, 1945-

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: recto, in pen with black India ink over black marker and black marker, alone, on the image, t. & t.r. to b. & b.r.: "IMPORTANT ISSUES NEED INTELLIGENT SPOKESMEN" / "WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS / FOR THE ABORTION / QUESTION NOW, PREMIER?" // "MAYBE WE'LL COPY SAS.... / ...SASKATCH.....SAS....SSS.... / .... ....THE FLAT PROVINCE!" // "HERE?" // "YEAH, IT'LL BE FANTASTIC! / RIGHT HERE IN BRITISH COL.... / BRIT....BRI....uh.......B.C.!" // "WHAT'S YOUR NAME?" // "BILL.....uh, BILL...V....uh..... / ....uh..VANDER..Z.....uh....... / .....GIVE..ME A..MINUTE..... / .......uh.......IS THIS A TRICK / QUESTION?"; l.c.: "BCBC"; signed recto, in pen with black India ink over black marker, b.r.: "14 . MARCH . 88 PiC The / Citizen"
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political

social

politique

cartoon / dessin humoristique

Abortion // British Columbia // Vander Zalm, Bill /
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Private

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1996-009 DAP
00005
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Record must be consulted under the supervision of an art archivist

Box [1996-009]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1 Item no. assigned by LAC 5

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00005] C-143266

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1996-9-5
Copyright: Peter Pickersgill

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