[Hand tipping a hat] – Vintage Print
![[Hand tipping a hat], 1914 Nov. — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/62/62ca4e322a9f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Hand tipping a hat], preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Drawn in brown ink over pencil on a small sheet of off-white note paper, this piece carries a handwritten line that explains its purpose: "My hat off to the goodly company I find myself among," signed by W. Heath Robinson and dated November 1914. Robinson was a British illustrator known for elaborate, absurdly complicated machines. The note was made only a few months after the First World War began, so the courteous, slightly wry tone of a tipped hat fits the period's mix of formality and uncertainty. Its place in an autograph collection suggests it was prized as a personal greeting.
| Created / published | 1914 Nov. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : brown ink over pencil on off-white note paper ; 16.5 x 21.9 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) British 1910-1920.Drawings British 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Inscribed: My hat off to the goodly company I find myself among / W. Heath Robinson nov. 1914. No copyright information found with item. Printed on paper: The Autograph Collection of Howes Norris, Jr. Title devised. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.551) |
| Subjects | Salutations--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,037 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157322 |
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