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Sketch for “The Shark and the Patriarch” in “Comic Fables, Out of The World”

Frederick Stuart Church

Sketch for Fables, The Shark and the Patriarch. Left, profile of shark; center, two camels, pelican and figure, examining shark, all necks outstretched. Right, boat.

Credit: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt

c. 1877
Graphite on paper
1938-57-1070-192
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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