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Study for Cartoon, "Editor's Easy Chair"
Thomas Nast (American, b. Germany, 1840–1902)
1870
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Classification
- Figures (representations)
- Dimensions
- 28.9 × 21.3 cm (11 3/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- USA
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Cooper Union Library
- 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
The editor is seated at his desk, facing left with editions of Harper's Weekly hanging on racks behind him. Seated on the floor, facing right in profile, is the artist himself depicted as a young child. The artist is sharpening his pencil, with a drawing block spread across his knees.
