I Expand and Live in the Warm Day Like Corn and Melons (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Christopher Pearse Cranch
Artist bio: American, Alexandria, Virginia 1813–1892 Boston, Massachusetts
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: American
Date: 1830–92
Medium: Pen and brown ink
Dimensions: sheet: 8 3/8 x 5 13/16 in. (21.3 x 14.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Whitney Dall Jr., in memory of Emily Dall, 1976
Accession year: 1976
Tags: Fruit|Plants|Human Figures