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The Hen and the Sailor
1878
- Medium
- Printed in black ink on paper
- Classification
- Ephemera
- Dimensions
- 30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- USA
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Upper left, side profile of chicken with bonnet and umbrella under wing. Upper right, profile of sitting man cutting fabric with scissors. Both are on iceberg. Lower left, downing figure. Below, short story. Smiling sun in background.
