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Tailor Trouble

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

ca. 1931

Reference:

Accession number: 1975-029 PIC, 00002, Box number: 20294

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2966892

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Honourable Paul Martin Collection

Tailor Trouble
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

ca. 1931

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pen and ink
Support 44.500 x 34.300

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The cartoon depicts Paul Martin being measured for suit. The tailors are outraged by Martin's proposals., Nov. 1975 - The work is rolled up and is soiled, stained and torn (l.c.)., Nov. 1975 - The work was flattened in conservation., Artist file 707-20; Portrait file 204-287.

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Artist: Boothe, Jack, 1910-1973

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed recto: u.c. "TAIILOR TROUBLE" in red pencil; centre "EMPIRE / TIES // WHEREAS... // CAMBRIDGE / '31 // CLAUSES // PAUL / MARTIN // PRIORITY / ORDER FOR 'CITIZENSHIP' / MODEL" in pen and ink; u.r. "PARLIAMENTARY / Made-to- / Measure / Tailor / Shoppe / BY APPT." in pen and ink; l.l. "With the compliments / of George [illegible letter] Cullogs // Jack Boothe // FRAME LINE"; first two lines in pen and blue ink and are not in the hand of the artist; the third and fourth lines are the signature of the artist in pen and black ink; the last line is in pencil.
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work

Portraits

travail

cartoon / dessin humoristique

SUBJ. - Work : Depicting Paul Martin Being Measured By Tailor For A Suit
Source:

Private

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1975-029 PIC

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1975-029 PIC
00002
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1975-029] 20294

[Consultation 90 Open]

020294 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1975-29-2 Source: transfer from MSS Division, Paul Martin Collection (MG 32 B 12).
Copyright: Estate of Jack Boothe.

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