Level | Item |
Ref No | EHS/G/3/19 |
Alt Ref No | O/0484, O/0485, O/0486, O/0487, O/0488, O/0489 |
Title | [Montage, Chapter 3] |
Date | [c1966] |
Extent | 6 drawings |
Description | Pen-and-ink drawings of [top to bottom, left to right]: two badgers watching household items and a large bug flying through the air; a large bug landing among anthropomorphic crabs as a bound and gagged boy looks on; three anthropomorphic crabs running away; the bound and gagged boy lying to the left of the giant bug; the boy untying himself as the giant bug gesticulates; the boy and giant bug walking away. The following captions are written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting [slashes denote line or section breaks]: "Ben + Brock/Oh! Our poor house!And there goes Mister Pipe/Holy Moses! The atom bomb!/Run like the blazes! before the thing blows up!/Never mind how you got here. Come and untie me before they come back/An earthquake it was. Up I went sky high/bother your old organ. we [underlined] must find out if Brock and his wife are safe.". There are a variety of [printers' instructions?] in the margins. |
Format | Artwork |