Consumer-graphics collection Est. 2026 · Vancouver

CLIPARCHIVE

A working museum of clip art, 1980s–early 2000s.

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Accession record

CA-1997-imsi-masterclip-1997-cd01-08593

CMEN114

Retrieved from storage.

The cartoon shows a man dressed as Sherlock Holmes holding up his magnifying glass to inspect something closely while standing on top of an elephant in front of Big Ben clock tower with London's iconic red double-decker buses visible behind him, and he is wearing a detective hat.

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The same image circulated in multiple products. Each copy is catalogued; one is displayed.

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The image shows a cartoon of an older man with glasses wearing a yellow shirt standing against a black background; he has gray hair on his head and is looking to one side without smiling. CA-1997-imsi-masterclip-1997-cd01-08246 The image shows a cartoon of an older man dressed as Sherlock Holmes standing with his hands on hips against a black background. CA-1997-imsi-masterclip-1997-cd01-08247 The cartoon depicts a man with an exaggeratedly large barrel for a body standing on two legs; he has his arms outstretched as if gesturing to someone off-camera while looking upwards, and appears surprised or confused by something not visible in this image. CA-1997-imsi-masterclip-1997-cd01-08248 The cartoon shows a man with glasses pointing to something offscreen while standing next to an explosion of stars that is emanating from his head; he appears surprised by this event. CA-1997-imsi-masterclip-1997-cd01-08686 The black and white illustration shows a man holding an open book with his left hand while reading it; he is wearing glasses on top of his head and has dark hair that appears to be styled in a slicked-back manner, suggesting middle age. He's dressed casually but smartly enough for the setting depicted here: what seems like a library or study room at nighttime due to the darkness outside visible through windows behind him. The man is standing against an interior wall with some indistinct items on it that could be decorative objects, and there are no other people in CA-1997-imsi-masterclip-1997-cd01-08687 The image shows a cartoon of an animated character with exaggerated facial features that resembles a caricatured man's face on top of what appears to be a human body. Above this figure, there is text in various font styles and sizes saying "YOWZA!" which translates from Afrikaans as 'hello.' The background has swirling patterns with different colors like purple, blue, green, yellow, red, orange, pink, white, black, gray, brown, beige. CA-1997-imsi-masterclip-1997-cd01-08688