The Mermaid
date: label: Date
content: 1877
name: label: Illustrator
content: Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924
label: Collector
content: Dr. Dudley Tenney, New York City
label: Author
content: Henry Wheeler Shaw, American, 1818–1885
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top, short story on what a mermaid is. Bottom; upper left, smiling sun; upper right, three standing penguins on top of cliff, below, profile of mermaid sitting facing left, with mirror in right hand, gazing at herself. Lower right, pelican gazing lovingly at mermaid.
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: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-1070-256
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: Printed in black ink on blue paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)