There exists another drawing by
Ronald Searle very similar to this one, which I believe was more of a view of just the put-upon cat on the library desk, it's tail ignominiously used as a bookmark. This was roughly around the time of
Slightly Foxed-- but Still Desirable (1989)
or shortly thereafter when Searle was drawing all manner of books and libraries. This cat-centered variant that I recall was submitted to
The New Yorker and purchased for use as a magazine cover, but perhaps owing to some editorial changes, it was never published by the magazine. Searle waited patiently until 2010 to publish this splendid version of the drawing himself.
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Ronald Searle, from What! Already? Searle at 90
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Detail of the above from the Ronald Searle Cultural Estate
Image added April 12, 2014
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Note: My previous set of
Searle library drawings can be found
here.
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