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Frederick Stuart Church (American, 1842–1924)

ca. 1897

Medium
Pen and brown ink on paper
Classification
Ephemera
Dimensions
10.5 × 23.6 cm (4 1/8 × 9 5/16 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
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

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About this work

At left, elephant wearing a hat and running towards right, holding with its trunk a large envelope addressed to Dr. Dudley Tenny. At right, profile of a tooth-like figure facing left with arms outstretched; hairs numbered on its head, and various medical instruments at its feet. At right, tooth-like figure holding a cane.