Ronald Searle actually made two finished versions of this 1991 Valentine's Day New Yorker cover. He submitted them both to The New Yorker and let the editors choose between them. The other version was similar, but the cats were sitting on a wooden porch rather than a brick wall.
Note: My most recent related post is about a caricature Searle made probably for TV Guide regarding "The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show" in 1968. It can be found here.
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