Sketch for “Grasshopper and the Ant” in “Comic Fables, Out of The World Series”
date: label: Date
content: ca. 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: From upper left to center to lower center a trail of grasshoppers doing various activities. Upper right, profile of grasshopper reading and walking. Upper center, profile of grasshopper sitting at desk writing, turned to look and figure behind him. Upper left, profile of grasshopper bending at the waist with top hat in hand, upset expression. Center left, grasshopper eating watermelon. Lower left, grasshopper with blade of grass in hand. Lower center, profile of grasshopper laying down, head by pumpkin, drinking.
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: 1938-57-1070-200
objectType: label: Type
content: animals
label: Object Name
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and black ink on paper