Weather Frognosticator
date: label: Date
content: 1878
name: label: Illustrator
content: Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924
label: Collector
content: Dr. Dudley Tenney, New York City
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top; left, profile of frog sitting on a ladder in a bottle half-way filled with water, bottle labeled, Weather Frognostigator. Center right, profile of a bear wearing glasses, hat, and suit, facing left. Right, profile of bird with outstretched neck wrapping around bottle. Upper right, waning crescent smiling and looking down at bottle. Upper right, shinning sun, smiling down at frog in bottle. Clouds and stars in the background. Various weather forecasting terms behind bear. Bottom, poem on weather forecaster frog.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-1070-266
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)