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Boy Riding a Giant Sunfish

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Alfred Crowquill

Boy Riding a Giant Sunfish

6 1/16 x 5 1/2 inches (154 x 139 mm)
Graphite on paper.
1956.28:3

Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1956.

Notes
Original drawing, evidently one of a series executed by Crowquill for an unidentified children's book.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "3" in pen at upper right; with "12 for 21/-" in pencil.
Summary

Drawing shows a boy riding on the back of a giant ocean sunfish or mola mola, with the moon sketched in on the horizon at left.

Associated names
Fales, DeCoursey, 1888-1966, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department