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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