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The Kind-Hearted She-Elephant
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
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Short story on elephant accidently steeping on a bird’s nest. Bottom left, profile of sitting elephant crying, handkerchief in hand. Lower right, bird standing and facing viewer.
