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A Pirate of the Air, The Officers Menagerie, Free Lunch, Illustrations for Scribner's Monthly (XVIII, No. 5, September 1879, p. 645)

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Article clipping from Scribner's Monthly on the history on Sandy Hook. Three images. In the top illustration, a man runs after a flying bird that has stolen a piece of cloth from him. In the middle illustration, a man and woman look into a menagerie. In the bottom image, a group of pigs eat the fish caught by a fisherman, who looks on in distress.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Illustrator
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924
Collector
Dr. Dudley Tenney, New York City
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York, USA
Date
September 1879
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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