1960 Menu from QUEEN MARY

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Dinner menu dated August 25, 1960 from the QUEEN MARY. The front cover has a sketch by artist T.J. Bond of a woman in aristocratic dress with a ship on her head, walking with a black boy. The hair is a reference to the pouf hairstyles of Marie Antoinette's court in France, which in their extremes did sometimes include ship models. The ship on this figure's head, however, has a C on one of the sails, probably referring to Cunard, so she is probably not intended to be French. The inclusion of a well-dressed black servant or enslaved boy in paintings to emphasize a woman's wealth and status was common in the 18th and 19th centuries, but this image is from 1960. On the back cover is a quotation from John Milton's work Samson Agonistes, in which he compares Delilah to a ship.