Sketches for “The Hen and the Sailor” in “Comic Fables, Out of The World Series”

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Upper left, profile of chicken with neck outstretched and umbrella under wing. Upper right, profile of figure sitting on the ground with scissors in right hand, sock in left, cutting sock.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Illustrator
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924
Collector
Dr. Dudley Tenney, New York City
Date
ca. 1878
Credit Line
Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
Medium
Graphite on paper
Type
animals
Object Name
Ephemera
Type
Ephemera
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