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Weather Frognosticator
1878
- Medium
- 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
Top; left, profile of frog sitting on a ladder in a bottle half-way filled with water, bottle labeled, Weather Frognostigator. Center right, profile of a bear wearing glasses, hat, and suit, facing left. Right, profile of bird with outstretched neck wrapping around bottle. Upper right, waning crescent smiling and looking down at bottle. Upper right, shinning sun, smiling down at frog in bottle. Clouds and stars in the background. Various weather forecasting terms behind bear. Bottom, poem on weather forecaster frog.
