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Can you keep a secret

Drawing
1990s
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A bus containing eight passengers, seven of whom look angrily at a woman in the centre of the scene on her mobile phone. She wears a short black dress and is holding her hair in her right hand. Beneath the cartoon, the following in written: 'CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?'

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleCan you keep a secret
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink on paper
Brief description
Cartoon, 'Can you keep a secret' by Michael Heath, published in Private Eye (early 1990s)
Physical description
A bus containing eight passengers, seven of whom look angrily at a woman in the centre of the scene on her mobile phone. She wears a short black dress and is holding her hair in her right hand. Beneath the cartoon, the following in written: 'CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?'
Dimensions
  • Height: 23cm
  • Width: 21.4cm
Credit line
Given by Michael Heath
Object history
Given by the artist to the museum in 2018.
Collection
Accession number
E.316-2018

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Record createdMarch 8, 2018
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