Leaping Stag
date: label: date made
content: 1850 - 1875
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Horizontal rectangular, calligraphic or penmanship drawing depicting a stag leaping to the right. The ornamental title at bottom center is inscribed “Penmanship.” in broken script. It has a right hand writing with a steel pen drawn in graphite at both ends, seen from front at left and back at right. The title indicates the drawing could easily have been created as a reward of merit or award for penmanship.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The drawing is contained in a dark-stained, molded frame with burnished- and stenciled-gilt liner; nailed mitered corners, backboards, and two eye hooks with hanging wire.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: associated subject
content: Education
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne American Folk Art Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.65.0861
label: catalog number
content: 65.0861
label: accession number
content: 256396
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (image material)
label: Physical Description
content: graphite (image material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper, wove (image material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: gilt (frame material)
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content: glass (glazing material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 7/8 in x 27 5/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 55.5625 cm x 70.1675 cm x 4.7625 cm