Desperate Business - Cambridge
Drawing
2012
2012
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
The present drawing belongs to a series of cartoons entitled ‘Desperate Business’ that appears regularly in Private Eye.
Following the success of ‘Private Eye: the first 50 years’, the exhibition held at the V&A in 2011, we were keen that it should have a permanent legacy in the V&A’s drawings collection. We invited a number of cartoonists to donate works to the museum to form a 'Private Eye collection'. Jon Link and Mick Bunnage, whose work was included in the exhibition, generously presented the museum with this work.
This drawing has joined the V&A’s large collection of caricatures and satirical prints and drawings which includes work by Hogarth, Rowlandson, Gillray, Cruikshand, John Leech and contemporary artists such as Steadman, Heath, Fantoni and Steve Bell among others.
The characters that Link and Bunnage have created for their cult comic Modern Toss, and for the Guardian and Private Eye, have been aptly described as ‘badly-drawn, utterly foul-mouthed, mean spirited and misanthropic… also very, very funny’.
Following the success of ‘Private Eye: the first 50 years’, the exhibition held at the V&A in 2011, we were keen that it should have a permanent legacy in the V&A’s drawings collection. We invited a number of cartoonists to donate works to the museum to form a 'Private Eye collection'. Jon Link and Mick Bunnage, whose work was included in the exhibition, generously presented the museum with this work.
This drawing has joined the V&A’s large collection of caricatures and satirical prints and drawings which includes work by Hogarth, Rowlandson, Gillray, Cruikshand, John Leech and contemporary artists such as Steadman, Heath, Fantoni and Steve Bell among others.
The characters that Link and Bunnage have created for their cult comic Modern Toss, and for the Guardian and Private Eye, have been aptly described as ‘badly-drawn, utterly foul-mouthed, mean spirited and misanthropic… also very, very funny’.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Title | Desperate Business - Cambridge (assigned by artist) |
| Brief description | Drawing, 'Desperate Business - Cambridge' by Jon Link and Mick Bunnage, British school, 2012. Part of the 'Private Eye Collection'. |
| Credit line | Presented by the artist |
| Summary | The present drawing belongs to a series of cartoons entitled ‘Desperate Business’ that appears regularly in Private Eye. Following the success of ‘Private Eye: the first 50 years’, the exhibition held at the V&A in 2011, we were keen that it should have a permanent legacy in the V&A’s drawings collection. We invited a number of cartoonists to donate works to the museum to form a 'Private Eye collection'. Jon Link and Mick Bunnage, whose work was included in the exhibition, generously presented the museum with this work. This drawing has joined the V&A’s large collection of caricatures and satirical prints and drawings which includes work by Hogarth, Rowlandson, Gillray, Cruikshand, John Leech and contemporary artists such as Steadman, Heath, Fantoni and Steve Bell among others. The characters that Link and Bunnage have created for their cult comic Modern Toss, and for the Guardian and Private Eye, have been aptly described as ‘badly-drawn, utterly foul-mouthed, mean spirited and misanthropic… also very, very funny’. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.87-2013 |
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| Record created | November 20, 2012 |
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