Jon Link
Desperate Business - Cambridge
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- The museum
About the work
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.
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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’.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- E.87-2013
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Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
