Images(3)

The Warhorse Doing a Sky-Hop

Artist/Maker Ernest Thompson Seton (United Kingdom, 1860 - 1946)

MediumGouache on Paper

Dimensionsimage: 13 3/8 × 9 3/8 in. (34 × 23.8 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineLynn and Foster Friess, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Terms

Object numberW2010.039

Description(W2010.039.001) Jackrabbit jumping straight up in the air. Several other rabbits run towards background. This image was used to illustrate "The Little Warhorse; A Story of a Jack-Rabbit" from Seton's book "Animal Heroes: Being the Histories of a Cat, a Dog, a Pigeon, a Lynx, Two Wolves & a Reindeer and in Elucidation of the Same Over 200 Drawings" published in 1901. Accompanying the painting is a page (15” x 9 5/8” - W2010.039.002) with the story of “The Warhorse” from “The Ladies’ Home Journal” dated June 1904. Page is located in PSDR4.

Status

Not on view