Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Background, upper left, sun, surprised, yelling police; right, group of animals watching boy and alligator, hippo and cranes. Foreground, profile of young child facing left, with arms outstretched, as if surprised; right, alligator pulls the bottom of child’s shirt. Lower left, sketch of smiling crab.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Illustrator
- Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924
- Collector
- Dr. Dudley Tenney, New York City
- Date
- 1877
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Type
- animals
- Object Name
- Ephemera
- Type
- Ephemera
