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Sketch for "The Sorceress" and "Beneath the Sea," Illustrations for Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (LXXVIII, No. CCCCLXIII, December 1888, p. 56, 57)

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Top, sketch of The Sorceress; Left, group of alligators swimming towards girl right. Right, Girl sitting on knees, head turned to see alligators. Below, sketch for Beneath the Sea. Two mermaids underwater; left, mermaid with skull in hands swims towards sitting mermaid, right. Right, mermaid sitting, back towards viewer.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Illustrator
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924
Collector
Dr. Dudley Tenney, New York City
Publisher
Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA
Date
ca. 1888
Credit Line
Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
Dimensions
30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
Type
figures
Object Name
Ephemera
Type
Ephemera
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