[Chorus of parsons: Hey take your arm down don't you know this is Sunday?"]" – Vintage Print
![[Chorus of parsons: Hey take your arm down don't you know this is Sunday?"]", 1921 Mar. 1-15 [publication date] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2e/2ef22f71da61-L.webp)
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[Chorus of parsons: Hey take your arm down don't you know this is Sunday?"]" comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Here the Statue of Liberty, labeled *Libertas* at her base, is the target: a row of clergymen scolds her for raising her arm on a Sunday. Reginald Marsh drew the cartoon for *Good Morning*, a left-wing journal published in New York in early 1921, and it was likely aimed at the moralizing of the postwar years, when Sabbath observance and blue laws were still hotly argued. Marsh, who later became known for his scenes of Depression-era New York, built the drawing from India ink and crayon, and its humor rests on one sharp question about who gets to decide when liberty may be exercised.
| Created / published | 1921 Mar. 1-15 [publication date] |
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| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink, with crayon, and drawn overlay on off-white wove paper ; 38.8 x 35.8 cm. (sheet) |
| Subjects | Title from Good morning. Inscribed on base of statue: Libertas. Inscribed upper margin: Good Morning. Stamped on verso: Studio 54, 19 West 44th St. N.Y. 36. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.561) Marsh's cartoon appeared in the left-wing journal Good Morning, possibly meant to satirize Published in: Good Morning, March 1-15, 1921. |
| Original scan | 1,102 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157290 |
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