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Drawing, Kangarouge: Produce of Australia (Jumping for Joy Downunder)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Ronald Searle and published by Clos du Val Wine Company, Limited and Taltarni Vineyards and made for Jerrild + Associates. It is dated 1980 and we acquired it in 1984. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, crayon, graphite on heavy wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by John Goelet. It is credited Gift of John Goelet.

Its dimensions are

45 × 32.3 cm (17 11/16 × 12 11/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in blue ink, verso: Ronald Searle/JOHN LOCKE STUDIO/15 EAST 76th STREET/ NEW YORK CITY, 10021/ U.S.A. Butterfield 8-8010/ Drawing/Dessin/Zeichnung/Copyright © Ronald Searle 1980

It is signed

Signed in pen and black ink, lower left: Ronald Searle

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and red ink on paper affixed at lower left margin: * and covering inscription: Kangarouge: Produce of Australia; verso: Kangarouge: Produce of Australia/ 45 x 32.5 cm

Cite this object as

Drawing, Kangarouge: Produce of Australia (Jumping for Joy Downunder); Designed by Ronald Searle (British, active France, 1920 - 2011); Published by Clos du Val Wine Company, Limited, Taltarni Vineyards; Made for Jerrild + Associates; pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, crayon, graphite on heavy wove paper; 45 × 32.3 cm (17 11/16 × 12 11/16 in.); Gift of John Goelet; 1984-93-9

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