Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Upper left, seal holding sketch of banjo overhead, excited. Pole in background. Upper left, profile of seal and mermaid facing one another. Seal is playing banjo, while mermaid sings, with arms at chest. Various birds around them, behind mermaid is a sketch of another mermaid. Lower center, profile of polar bear sitting and facing group of seals, has two seals on his lap. Telling story.
- 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 on paper
- Type
- animals
- Object Name
- Ephemera
- Type
- Ephemera
