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"If the soap falls out of the bath-tub, try this"

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Cartoon with three frames. Left, an explanation and key to center frame. Center, absurd invention to retrieve soap. Right, panel labeled "Foolish Questions, No. 44, 106", showing man washing hair over a basin.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Artist
Rube Goldberg, American, 1883 – 1970
Date
1963
Credit Line
Gift of Rube Goldberg
Medium
Pen and black ink, graphite on cream illustration board
Dimensions
17.5 × 51.5 cm (6 7/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
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