Fred Astaire and Amelia Earhart, caricatures by Henry Major

Two pencil-and-ink caricatures on cream paper. At left, a man with a large head and round glasses wears tails and holds a top hat while mid-step in a dancing pose. At right, a short-haired woman sits astride a globe beside a propeller, drawn in loose charcoal-like lines.

Artist

Henry Major

Date

1937

Medium

Pencil and ink on paper

Source

Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery)

Size

4000 × 2245 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery