Snookums. Dovey Mrs. Smith wants us to call and see the Jones's baby ..."" – Historic Print
![Snookums. Dovey Mrs. Smith wants us to call and see the Jones's baby ..."", [between 1912 and 1918] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/09/09b2460f4482-L.webp)
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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Snookums. Dovey Mrs. Smith wants us to call and see the Jones's baby ..."". It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Snookums. Dovey Mrs. Smith wants us to call and see the Jones's baby ...""
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George McManus signed this drawing in the lower left of its thirteenth frame, and it is built in India ink over pencil, with watercolor and scraped-out highlights on heavy Bristol board. The caption, in which Mrs. Smith urges a call to see the Jones's baby, places the strip's domestic humor in an ordinary neighborly visit. McManus was known for *The Newlyweds*, the newspaper feature that made the baby Snookums a familiar figure, and the 1912 to 1918 date range falls within the years that feature was running. The sheet later came to the Library of Congress as a gift from Caroline and Erwin Swann and was shown in the 1971 traveling exhibition *The Art of the Comic Strip*.
| Created / published | [between 1912 and 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink over pencil, with watercolor, and scraping out on bristol board ; 55.0 x 43.0 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | 1971; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, The Art of the Comic Strip |
| Subjects | Signed, lower left, thirteenth frame: G McMANUS. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1430) Published in: Horn, World Ency. of Comics, p. 517. Published in: The great American comic strip / Judith O'Sullivan. Boston: Little, Brown, p. 159. Exhibited: University of Maryland, The Art of the Comic Strip |
| Original scan | 1,206 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172799 |
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