[Bringing up father. Jiggs and Dinty get the boot]. Say how many are goin to be at this dinner tonight that my wife is giving?" / Geo McManus." – Historic Reproduction
![[Bringing up father. Jiggs and Dinty get the boot]. Say how many are goin to be at this dinner tonight that my wife is giving?" / Geo McManus." — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7e/7e834e0266f4-L.webp)
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Step back in time with [Bringing up father. Jiggs and Dinty get the boot]. Say how many are goin to be at this dinner tonight that my wife is giving?" / Geo McManus.", a historic drawing rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Bringing up father. Jiggs and Dinty get the boot]. Say how many are goin to be at this dinner tonight that my wife is giving?" / Geo McManus."
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In this India ink and watercolor drawing from George McManus's *Bringing Up Father*, Jiggs and Dinty are being turned out of a dinner party, with waiters in the scene. The caption's question about how many guests will attend the dinner Jiggs's wife is hosting points to the household tensions behind the strip: a newly prosperous Irish-American bricklayer whose wife, Maggie, pursues social standing while Jiggs keeps his old friends. The record's tentative date of about 1912 places the drawing close to the strip's early years, when it was becoming one of the most popular newspaper comics of its era.
| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink and watercolor over graphite underdrawing, with paste-on ; 24.2 x 43 cm (sheet) |
|---|---|
| Genre | Inc. Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress). Unprocessed in WOOD/Comicstrips/McManus" |
| Notes | [1912?] |
| Subjects | Dinner parties--1910-1920. Waiters--1910-1920. Friendship--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,537 × 4,312 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226165 |
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