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Summary

Description

The Vain Rhinoceros, illustration by Frederick Stuart Church (1842–1924), with its printed fable and moral. Matching printed layout in Fables by G. Washington Aesop (George Thomas Lanigan), New York: The World, 1878, printed p. 21.

The composition corresponds to HPB-SB-4-211, image item 3 and adjoining fable item 2. The rhinoceros, four hounds, reeds and grasses, lettering and line breaks agree. The album's manuscript page numbers and other materials are separate. The museum sheet and book are matching printed witnesses; the physical origin of the album clipping is not established.

Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; accession 1938-57-1070-218; Bequest of Erskine Hewitt. Catalogue date 1878; medium: printed in black ink on paper. Photographer credited in the delivered JPEG: Matt Flynn, 6 November 2018.

• Exact museum record, record ID chndm_1938-57-1070-218.
• Persistent object identifier.
• Complete original museum photograph, media CHSDM-57307_01-000001. The download menu advertises 4245 × 5120; the actual delivered JPEG is 4504 × 5432 pixels.

The exact record, image-specific CC0 usage notice and original download were checked 5 November 2026, following normal visitor verification.

Thank you to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, the Smithsonian Institution and Matt Flynn for preserving, photographing and freely providing this material.

Rights

CC0: the exact object record marks both Restrictions & Rights and this specific media as CC0. Its image-specific usage notice permits copying, modifying and distributing the image without contacting the Smithsonian. See the image's CC0 control, Smithsonian Terms of Use and CC0 1.0. Metadata usage is separately CC0.

The original JPEG retains an older restrictive IPTC notice dated 2018. The original image and metadata remain unchanged in the source evidence; the current institution-supplied image-specific CC0 statement is recorded separately. Rights are not inferred from another record. Attribution is retained for provenance and as a courtesy.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 1570 × 2415 pixels, with natural paper colour and the original ICC profile. Native original JPEG 4504 × 5432 pixels, 13,318,739 bytes, SHA-256 b584e579e82d2aa7239a3f3f43b1be3e8cee2cb5137d0dbb9b08008b555b7cfe, retained unchanged. One 0.378184472° counterclockwise BICUBIC rotation on the full canvas without expansion, followed by crop (1250, 1185)–(2820, 3600), right and bottom exclusive. The long outer-frame vertical provides the alignment; small original paper curvature is preserved. Both frames, all four hounds, rhinoceros, title, fable and moral are retained. Blank museum album mounting, binding and accession notation outside the print are excluded and remain visible in the complete linked photograph. Independent pixel replay, all-255 support mask and unchanged ICC checked. No enlargement, sharpening, contrast or colour alteration, retouching, colourization or reconstruction.