Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Top; left, seal leaning on pole playing banjo with music notes above him, labelled Yankee Doodle. Group of birds at his right, one angry bird at his left. Center; profile of seal and mermaid, seal is playing banjo while mermaid sings. Birds in background left. Bottom; right, profile of polar bear sitting with seals on his lap and a group of seals sitting around him, telling a story. Mountains in background
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Illustrator
- Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924
- Publisher
- The Outlook
- Collector
- Dr. Dudley Tenney, New York City
- Date
- 1895
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
- Medium
- Graphite, pen and black ink on paper
- Type
- animals
- Object Name
- Ephemera
- Type
- Ephemera
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