"It isn't every student I'd let mark her own examination paper, Miss Dawson."

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Photo by Mark DiOrio.
"It isn't every student I'd let mark her own examination paper, Miss Dawson."
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Artist/Maker (American, 1904 – 1968)
Datepublished February 1937
MediumIndia ink with graphite on illustration board with some white paint
DimensionsComposition: 10 × 14 7/8 in. (25.4 × 37.8 cm) Sheet: 14 5/8 × 20 in. (37.1 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Dorothy Pilkington
Object number2008.2.4
Not on view
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Provenance prior to 1983: Private collection of Walter Pilkington
2008: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Dorothy Pilkington, widow of Walter Pilkington
Published References "Peter Arno's Side-Show", College Humor, February 1937.
Signature Recto, lower left (ink): "P.A."
Inscribed Entitled in pencil at lower center below arrows: "It isn't every [underlined] student I'd let mark her own examination / paper, Miss Dawson."; inscribed in pencil at lower center of sheet; under composition: [arrow pointing left] 6 1/2" [arrow pointing right] highlight / halftone [underlined] / no blue / go ahead; inscribed in pencil on verso at lower right: H13731-3-7
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
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Peter Arno
Date: published March 1937
Medium: India ink with graphite on illustration board
Object number: 2008.2.2
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
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Peter Arno
Date: published April 1937
Medium: India ink wash in black on illustration board
Object number: 2008.2.1
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
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Peter Arno
Date: published March 1937
Medium: India ink with graphite on illlustration board
Object number: 2008.2.3
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
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Medium: India ink on illustration board
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Photo by Mark DiOrio.
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