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Excerpt from The White Tigress from Illustrations for Short Stories: A Magazine of Fact and Fiction (XIX, No. 1, May 1895, p. 11)

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Excerpt from a short story of a man meeting a Russian ivory carver who then tells the story of the inspiration and creation of a sculpture the narrator was interested in. Illustration at the bottom of the page shows angels and trees.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Illustrator
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924
Collector
Dr. Dudley Tenney, New York City
Date
1895
Credit Line
Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
Medium
Printed in black ink on paper
Dimensions
30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
Type
ephemera
Object Name
Ephemera
Type
Ephemera
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