Sketch for Cover in “The World’s Almaniac”
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Object Details
- Illustrator
- Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924
- Collector
- Dr. Dudley Tenney, New York City
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Left, tree trunk, with branch, upper right, three owls perched on branch, rightmost owl has head jutted out too look at giraffe. Right, giraffe’s neck wrapped around tree trunk. Center right, waxing crescent.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
- 1878
- Accession Number
- 1938-57-1070-263
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- animals
- Object Name
- Ephemera
- Type
- Ephemera
- Medium
- Brush and black and red watercolor, graphite on paper
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-57-1070-263
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq463205656-327d-41a1-b557-51e1c490f59e
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