Ship's Figurehead of Benjamin Franklin
date: label: Date
content: 1854 - 1856
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure and landscape sketch of a ship's figurehead of Benjamin Franklin lying horizontally in a sandy bank. He holds his tricorne hat in his left arm, while scrub grow th is visible in the upper right corner.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-1446
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 22.1 cm (4 13/16 × 8 11/16 in.)