[Cigarette card, “How to draw a duck without pencil leaving the paper,” c. 1908–1919. From the George Arents Collection, via the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.]
I want to say that it was a simpler time, but I think it was in truth a more complicated time. That’s one elaborate duck.
Also from the NYPL Gallery
A 1914 telephone call : The Automat : Benny Goodman : A cigarette card of mystery : Inspector Bucket : Invisible ink : The NYPL Stereograminator : Whelan’s Drug Store
Friday, December 27, 2013
How to draw a duck
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"That’s one elaborate duck" —and the rabbit is all the poorer for it. :)
Yes. :)
For anyone who’s wondering, it’s a Wittgenstein thing.
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